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Global Warming or Global Cooling in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, May 29 2005 15:57 Profile Homepage #12
quote:
Originally written by Ezrah, Kitty of Wonder ^.^:

Nothing humanity could ever do, short of setting off all the nuclear weapons in the world at a single point to "attempt" to knock it off orbit, rip a large chunck out of it, or knock the moon into it could ever really harm the planet.
We could also sear everything down to bedrock and, hey, there's still a ball of rock and dirt floating through space! All right! As a more meaningful measure, I think mass genocide and forcing evolution into entirely new paths are both measures of doing a fair job of ruining the planet.

—Alorael, who supposes it's speciesist of him to mean "humans on Earth" much of the time when he says "Earth." Although presumably almost all species will undergo starvation, radical habitat shift, or other unpleasant things while the humans starve.
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Why ? what did I do ? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, May 29 2005 15:45 Profile Homepage #7
As far as I have seen there isn't any evidence that you were actually behind "Hawk King 2." I also haven't been here and haven't investigated to my usual rigorous standard (five minutes as opposed to less than five minutes), but I give you credit for being not that much of a spammer and smart enough not to make yourself look like an idiot.

—Alorael, who has rarely seen someone try to excuse the actions of another account as a sibling. Usually those are just left to the endless trolls of the internet. It's only one's own account that falls into younger and more dastardly relations' hands.
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stuck in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, May 29 2005 15:33 Profile Homepage #1
In Avernum 2, I presume? You need to use the Ritual of Sanctification, which can be learned in Formello. Look for secret passages by the northwest part of the western city wall.

—Alorael, thinks someone tells you where to find it. Someone should, at any rate.
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Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, May 29 2005 15:27 Profile Homepage #11
Hello, my name is below, and I'm addicted to skribbane and running jokes that just aren't funny.

—Alorael, who happens to appreciate ADoS' response greatly. It's topical, interesting, and appropriate, something rare on Spiderweb.
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GIFTS in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, May 29 2005 15:17 Profile Homepage #11
I think this may be a record for topic derailment and welcome gone wrong in such a short span and in the same thread. Well done!

For an analogy, suppose that you are in a room with people holding a conversation. Let's say you're all at a table, for instance, and you're listening but not talking. Someone else sits down after a while and joins in. A while after that, you join in yourself. Now use your conversational skills to analyze what your relative positions in the conversation are.

(If you rate one higher than the other, you must have weirdly competitive conversations!)

—Alorael, who has nothing against the GIFTS. They're comic relief and they've even been integrated passably into the game.
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RWG in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, May 27 2005 09:41 Profile Homepage #83
Don't spam one of the few worthwhile topics left to RWG, sirrah.

—Alorael, who supposes all value left when the guano appeared. Or maybe it was the pidgeons. Heck, the second post managed to meander.
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6 Locked Spam Topics in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, May 27 2005 09:39 Profile Homepage #2
Deep down inside I'm shedding many tears of pain and sorrow.

—Alorael, who will oblige on that seven.
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Awfully Quiet in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, May 27 2005 09:38 Profile Homepage #32
But the younger lot is apparently now cocky enough to try butchering my signature. I give unto you a verdict of guilty and a sentence of stop.

—Alorael, who would rather have newbies than not have newbies. Sure, there are a lot of n00bs, but there are also some genuine human beings in the lot. No, there is no Dune influence here.
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Music in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, May 27 2005 09:20 Profile Homepage #62
In this particular case I'd like to point out that Jeff Vogel, who rules by right of owning these boards, has created a Code of Conduct that forbids profanity. You don't have to agree, but you do have to refrain, even in a topic concerning that very matter.

Yes, TM, that means you. And everyone else.

—Alorael, who would rather not lock a discussion that was at least an one point meaningful because some people can't stay civil. If you disagree, explain. Politely!
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RWG needs less spam... in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, May 26 2005 10:04 Profile Homepage #6
At the tone, of course.

—Alorael, who asks the tone to standby. Tone... go!
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Signiture in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 25 2005 17:00 Profile Homepage #12
If you can't think of a good signature, you shouldn't have one. Humor that is no longer funny after the first fifty views doesn't go in a signature either.

—Alorael, whose particular brand of humor is, of course, exempt. Dissenters will be shot. Any questions?
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Quote on charisma. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 25 2005 11:38 Profile Homepage #14
Uh, arguably. Other people would just call him a mass-murderer. Either way, I don't think he was known for his charisma. Draconian laws and unpredictable temper, yes. Likeable personality, no.

—Alorael, who believes the man's name was Vlad Tepes. Or Vlad the Impaler, depending on who you ask.
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Karma and Bush, and also the WTC in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 25 2005 11:34 Profile Homepage #5
Yes, you can change all kinds of things by clicking on "my profile" in the upper right hand corner, then click "View/Update Profile."

—Alorael, who firmly believes that all car alarms are actually operated by trapped malicious poltergeists. There's no other explanation for them, and they certainly don't do anyone any good.
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Whee in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 25 2005 11:30 Profile Homepage #19
Before you call for death, please learn to do it in English!

—Alorael, who is always happy to jump on a minimum-content posting spree. Ah, if only Aran had a way to track this sort of thing as well.
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Life Expectancy in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 25 2005 07:07 Profile Homepage #11
Actually, Stranger, Saunders' post explained the biological explanation for rising life expectancy. Aran posted the mathematical explanation.

Is there a point at which your estimated years left to live remains constant over several years?

—Alorael, who is comforted by knowing that his life expectancy will always be longer than he has been alive.
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Two Years and Two Days! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 25 2005 06:59 Profile Homepage #67
My post count divided by my member number yields a result less than thirty. Maybe the new rating of newbie is your oldbie index? You're only an oldbie if it's over 100?

—Alorael, who would like to know why posts per day has not been a calculation. Is ((current date) - (date joined)) too difficult to automate?
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Whee in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, May 25 2005 06:43 Profile Homepage #10
Congratulations on posting 111110100000 times and reaching a number that's relatively pretty even in binary!

—Alorael, who is only a more prolific poster, not a better poster. Nobody is better than Thuryl, who is ever closer to becoming a real boy.
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Quote on charisma. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 24 2005 21:39 Profile Homepage #9
Invoking Hitler is always good for creating hostility. I'll agree, though. This may be the first time I've seen anything Nazi-related come up in a civil discussion in a civil post. Perhaps not the most literate post, but civil. I think.

—Alorael, who may have to put this under the clause that says Godwin's Law doesn't apply if the Nazis actually have a place in the discussion. Hitler was something of an inevitability in a discussion of leaders and charisma, wasn't he?
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Life Expectancy in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 24 2005 21:35 Profile Homepage #1
I'm sure time spent planted in front of a monitor correlates strongly with sedentary, exercise-free lifestyle, which is a known cause (or lack of prevention) of all kinds of problems that can shorten your life.

—Alorael, who would like to see this finding before commenting further. As you stated it, the correlation doesn't even have to be statistically significant, nor does it necessarily have any causal link.
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Music in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 24 2005 21:29 Profile Homepage #35
There are two separate issues. The first is why charged language exists at all. Is there a reason to have profanity when more polite and otherwise interchangeable words exist? The second is how such language should be treated as long as it does exist. Should we always opt for the less volatile term?

I'm not a linguist, so I could hardly tell you why we turn certain terms into exclamations that aren't fit for polite company. Now that we have, though, I do think it would be a shame to lose the distinction. If I utter a string of words that can only be represented here by @#&*($^, I want to get a response. I don't want it to be the same response as I get by saying, "Gosh darn it, I am annoyed!" There is a distinct qualitative difference, and it deserves to be recognized and, when appropriate, used.

With that said, does it make sense that you can't express strong (usually negative) emotions in polite company? Not really. Social mores don't have to make sense. They just exist.

I'm inclined to believe it's a class issue. High society did and possibly does not curse, at least in public. The lower classes cursed like the sailors who happened to be members of that class. Thus, cursing marks you as a coarse lout. It wouldn't be the only social leftover of a more Victorian culture.

Alec: Saying that cursing at great length and then making up later isn't harmful while making cold, pointed comments is harmful is an argument that holds no water. Getting angry and shouting and then apologizing later will stress any relationship, but usually not to the breaking point. Bitter, hurtful remarks, with or without profanity, are a greater strain.

Again, profanity tends to make remarks be taken as stronger no matter the context. Between "I hate you!" and "I #$&*(@^ hate you!" the former is the weaker exclamation. It makes sense to me that the latter would require more making up afterwards. It's all a socio-linguistic (huzzah for created words!) construct, but that doesn't make it any less real.

Ben: You can believe that cursing is wrong, but there isn't a shred of religious basis for it. The religious of all faiths have tended to frown on swearing, but they have also had many other proscribed actions and behaviors that have little or nothing to do with the holy text in question. Since you can't point to a reason God disapproves, why do you think religious society, or any society, disapproves? That's the more useful question.

—Alorael, who thinks of many things when he thinks of Christians. The some worst people he knows, and some are pretty awful, are devout Christians. So are the some of the best people he knows. And a great deal of that is due to the fact that he knows many Christians. Religion doesn't say a thing about personal character. There isn't a large-scale religion on Earth that has successfully maintained a doctrine of being just a nice guy.
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dose any one have.. in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 24 2005 21:09 Profile Homepage #6
The implication of the first post (and the contents of many previous posts) is that the current E2 graphics are not the original E2 graphics. Thus the ones used in the game and shown on the website are the wrong ones. They are identical to the graphics found by Google. Ergo said found graphics are also the wrong ones.

—Alorael, who would also point out that anyone with half a mind could find graphics using Google except for the fact that many people seem tragically unable or unwilling to do so. There's even a business based on using Google for people. This is a sad world.
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strange question in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 24 2005 16:40 Profile Homepage #42
Health insurance is a tangled nightmare that impedes proper healthcare. Our system is both absurd and obscene.

—Alorael, who was forced by circumstances to experience the Danish hospital system. The quality of care provided was excellent and the quality of not being buried in paperwork was even better.
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questions? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 24 2005 16:37 Profile Homepage #5
We had avatars before for a brief period. They caused too much slowdown in page loading time and were removed. Images in signatures would cause a very similar problem.

—Alorael, who will admit that some degree of control over image size, both in dimensions and in bytes, would have drastically reduced the inconvenience. This is a UBB in question, however, so any fine control like that is probably out of the question.
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Quote on charisma. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 24 2005 13:25 Profile Homepage #7
Shadow, that was almost entirely besides the point. I suppose Godwin's Law was inevitable here, though.

Charisma is not at all the undoing of leaders, but it's unfortunate that charisma has so much to do with how we select our leaders. While genuine ability should be the criterion, those who are capable but not likeable generally languish while the loveable incompetents or evils rise to the top.

—Alorael, who doesn't see what charisma has to do with flexibility at all. An inflexible leader can get his or her way more easily if he or she is charismatic, but a charismatic person is no more likely to be inflexible than a boor. In fact, charisma can in large part rest on the ability to make others believe that their leader is flexible and willing to compromise.
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strange question in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, May 24 2005 13:18 Profile Homepage #40
Paying taxes doesn't guarantee no spontaneous loss of property (In fact, one can argue that taxes are inherently spontaneous loss of property). They are, however, a necessary part of the functional kind of government that prevents the "KGB come, shoot whole family" problem.

Paying taxes under a bad system, and America's is heading that way right now, is more likely to put you by that intersection than save you from it. Paying taxes under a good system means that you won't have to be there even if you don't have the money for that piece of cardboard.

—Alorael, who would rather pay taxes and know that he'll have hospital care if he needs it it than pay fewer taxes and start worrying when the expensive procedures are necessary.
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