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| Displayed name | Or else o'erleap. |
| Member number | 335 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
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| Homepage | http://www.polarisboard.net |
| Registered | Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, May 11 2005 17:11
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Stop. Now. —Alorael, who draws the line at having what few actual topics exist drop off the bottom of the page because of locked garbage. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| the seasons un avernum in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, May 11 2005 06:49
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According to Silver Harloe's excellent page, here are the months in order (although Rememberance isn't necessarily the first month): Rememberance Suncome Radiane Empire Leafloss Icefall Frost Evermoon With eight months, there are probably two per season. If seasons don't change in the middle of a month, then I'd say Icefall and Frost are the obvious winter months, Evermoon and Rememberance therefore have to be spring, Suncome and Radiane are summer, and Empire and Leafloss are fall. —Alorael, who will add that Leafloss is the only month without any holidays. The fall must be boring in Avernum. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 10 2005 17:26
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The Ikonboard is gone. I'm not sure what my first post was, but I'm sure it was nothing of note. My first post here was probably equally inane and it's equally gone. —Alorael, who hasn't improved markedly since then, has he? Inanity is always chic and timely. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 10 2005 17:21
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Leafloss is obviously autumn. I can't remember where Rememberance is in the calendar, so judge it by that. —Alorael, who doubts that there are any perceptible seasons in Avernum. Being underground makes the position of the planet relative to the sun rather insignificant. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, May 10 2005 17:07
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If you want to escape Avernum, you're heading in the wrong direction entirely. If you want to use the platform, you need four or five brooches. It's much, much better to have five. [Edit: From another post it looks like you have the brooches already. Now I have no idea what's wrong.] —Alorael, who can post brooch locations if you'd like. He can also explain escaping if that's what you're actually interested in. [ Tuesday, May 10, 2005 17:27: Message edited by: Droozler ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 9 2005 16:44
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Do you know where your tires have been? You know, as far as disease is concerned, tires that roll on a road might as well have been over all the roads that every tire ever to use that road has been on. (My God, the grammar!) —Alorael, who prefers his meet three dimensional, thank you. He also isn't a huge fan of partridge. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 9 2005 14:14
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TM hasn't actually done anything to merit banning. His bouts of obnoxiousness (well, over the top obnoxiousness) come infrequently enough that his seniority and his scenarios give him some free passes. That's all well and good, but of course there's more. TM has guanxi that you can only dream of having, puny newbie. —Alorael, who will set people ablaze if that is what it takes to preserve General. You have been warned. Wear your asbestos and don't fan the flames. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 9 2005 14:08
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You know there are genes that don't just produce on-off phenotypes, right? If sexual orientation is a polygenic trait, there could be a wide continuum based on several genes. That's also assuming that it's still something as simple as a single trait expression and ignoring the effects of social pressures on sexual orientation. I doubt anyone has mapped aesthetic preferences to genes. Identical twins separated at birth tend to have similar preferences, though, which suggests some correspondance. I think you've got cause and effect mixed up. Being gay means you have a greater chance for greater social "ability" (or so I've also heard, although not from reliable sources), but it could easily be pleiotropy (one gene causing the two effects), adjacent chromosomes (so the traits tend to be transmitted together), or something else. A bigger "social" brain doesn't make you gay. —Alorael, who would guess that one's sexual identity is determined overwhelmingly by genes and pre-natal development. However, those who are to some degree bisexual are likely to think of themselves as and act as heterosexuals because it is so much easier in most societies. Would you choose to be gay given the rampant homophobia you would have to deal with? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 9 2005 13:39
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Some of the RPs have gotten extraordinarily long. Perhaps due to their length they started having glitches. Saunders saved the day by locking the broken threads and starting new ones. —Alorael, who knows that was true for the Inn RP. Did it also happen to "Everyone Join" or any others? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 9 2005 13:35
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The humorous details don't change the fact that one must be responsible for one's pets. If one's pets impede traffic, one must accept the consequences. —Alorael, who is not one to avoid the second person needlessly. Not at all! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, May 9 2005 13:22
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And the Concealed Tunnel is different, I believe. And probably a few other places, but those are the major ones. —Alorael, who is absolutely sure that the very last dungeon is at least modestly changed. Once again it's a matter of lasers. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, May 8 2005 15:55
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I'm trying to run a tight ship here and you're making my life difficult. This is a problem with only two solutions. —Alorael, who will only lock this topic. Because he can and the power has gone to his head, okay? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, May 8 2005 15:45
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Since one can use certain illicit methods to enter the sealed chambers and find that there is absolutely nothing in them, I'd say Jeff was telling the truth. Any way to get it is either a bug or cheating. —Alorael, who hasn't heard of any bugs that let you get in. That leaves only cheating, and since there's nothing in there anyway, it isn't really worth it. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, May 8 2005 15:42
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Please read the above discussion of how such a gene can in fact be a desireable one. —Alorael, who would recap if it weren't perfectly capped already. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, May 8 2005 15:39
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That depends entirely on how you land. I advise against trying it head first. —Alorael, whose party members rarely die to falls of only one height unit. Even at level one you should be able to tough out a drop or even two if you're lucky. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, May 8 2005 06:56
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They sign up fully intending to post, then Arctic shows up and eats them. —Alorael, who is grateful for that. He wouldn't know what to do with invisible newbies that went visible. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 7 2005 19:09
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Do Catholics really frown on IVF? I'd think that babies without the shame of sex would be popular. It ensures that all the sperm can be put to good use, too. Spring, the stated purpose of the rule isn't to make gays suffer. The rule is intended to ensure more certainty that the sperm donations from gays are not HIV-positive since gay men are an especially high risk group. Making the period 2 years makes the system that much less useful. My view, however, is that the system isn't useful. Yes, the statistics support it, but from a social standpoint the rule can only serve to reinforce negative stereotypes that not all gays deserve. In fact, most don't deserve it. I also worry that heterosexuals will get less scrutiny, and there are certainly plenty of HIV-positive heterosexual men who could donate sperm. Basically, if the 5 year rule makes sense for gay men, it also makes sense for straight men. It's absurd either way. Careful screening is as effective, or almost as effective, and far less stigmatizing. —Alorael, who has always considered the immaculate conception the world's first example of in-vitro fertilization. If God did it, shouldn't it be acceptable? Or is it only morally right when performed the old-fashioned, miraculous way? Does that make God a Luddite? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 7 2005 18:58
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Scales are plagiarism? Even the rune is a stretch of the definition. —Alorael, who is happier calling it planted evidence. The fabricated scales are reasonable enough, but wouldn't a mage of Erika's standing create a signature rune that no other mage could fake? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 7 2005 09:02
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Since E3 gives you absolutely no incentive to guess, I didn't. I played through all the plagues looking for absolute proof and I got it. The mysterious source of the plagues isn't so mysterious if it doesn't matter until you already know the answer. —Alorael, who more or less expected all the evidence to be false and some fourth party like surface rebels of Avernite malcontents to be behind the plagues. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, May 7 2005 08:59
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A game can sell well without being good. If it does, books are a solid way to wring yet more money out of it. That still doesn't prove anything except popularity. —Alorael, who doesn't own any of the FPS games mentioned and who doesn't have enough FPS experience to pass judgement. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, May 6 2005 20:05
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If Ocean Bound is the way to nirvana, it's going to take a little more samsara to get me ready. —Alorael, who thought the Buddha advocated the middle path. Ocean Bound comes pretty close to the computer game equivalent of extreme asceticism. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, May 6 2005 20:02
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There are all kinds of genes that seem like they should disappear. Tay-Sachs disease, for example, can't be transmitted by anyone with the phenotype because they don't live nearly long enough. It's transmitted entirely through heterozygous carriers. If the "gay" gene were a simple recessive gene, it could stay in the population for a while. Also keep in mind that many homosexuals do have and have had families and children, especially historically. Societal pressure is a terrible thing. For a better example, look at cystic fibrosis. It's extraordinarily prevalent for a lethal phenotype. What makes it so common? I don't know, but I would bet that it, like the sickle-cell anemia allele, has some benefit to heterozygous carriers that evolutionarily outweighs the disadvantage. None of the evidence for genetic predisposition towards homosexuality or heterosexuality supports anything nearly as simple as a single gene, recessive or dominant, but that can at least explain how a seemingly disadvantageous trait (from a reproductive standpoint) can spread in a population. —Alorael, who would like to point out that AL's comment suggests a belief in microevolution. Darwin will have his due! Okay, sorry, but it had to be said. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, May 6 2005 13:48
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Ruth already answered this. No, there's no way into Sulfras' secret room or the room in Erika's Tower. —Alorael, who wishes there were at least one of the nice "How did you get in here?" signs. There isn't. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, May 6 2005 06:47
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The Empire is the only state in existence on the surface (as far as it knows), and there doesn't seem to be any evidence of there having been any other states of any size in the recent past. There's no evidence of conquest, no sign of any indigenous inhabitants of Valorim who still haven't been incorporated into the Empire, and no other signs of any takeover. It's possible that unofficial settlers preceded the Empire's official control of the continent with armies, but I'd say it was the Empire's people there from the beginning. —Alorael, who supposes the nephilim make a reasonable group of opressed natives. That may, howerver, conflict quite a lot with the complex history of Avernum (or Exile, as the case may be) already created by certain others Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, May 6 2005 06:36
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Since you can't fight the Crystal Souls in Ghikra without encountering instant death and since they don't attack you anyway, I think he means the Crystal Souls under Tinraya. —Alorael, who wonders now why the Crystal Souls in Ghikra were so carefully guarded and the ones in Tinraya so relatively vulnerable. Doesn't Rentar-Ihrno know that only death nodes can stop adventurers? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |