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Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 23 2005 17:58 Profile Homepage #476
Just think of how much more entertaining he would be as the big potato in the Vatican!

—Alorael, who would expect a new inquisition to hunt down conservatives and force them to convert or die.
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99% of all Statistics are made up. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 23 2005 17:56 Profile Homepage #97
Beer and wine both have health benefits as well as social benefits. Alcohol doesn't "usually" lead to problems, as most people can drink reasonable quantities, and it's only depressing when you find yourself nursing an excruciating hangover.

—Alorael, who avoids large quantities of alcohol socially because while the feeling of liberation is pleasant, having to deal with what he said afterwards often is not. Thuryl's advice of only dealing with people you despise could solve that, but then, as he points out, you don't need the alcohol in the first place.
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Really, really, really non-good. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 23 2005 17:45 Profile Homepage #6
What she doesn't know doesn't hurt her.

—Alorael, who will leave it at that. How you deal with your family members when they hold diametrically opposed views is your own business.
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Una ballena bañandose con un pez esponja in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 23 2005 12:21 Profile Homepage #28
The first post contains a poem, what you wrote was broken Spanish, and what you said was either "he doesn't understand poetry" or "you don't understand poetry" (the verb has no antecedent).

—Alorael, who considers it a sign that you almost still speak Spanish. It's better than nothing!
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How evil would it be ... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 23 2005 12:16 Profile Homepage #9
I think editing a post also updates the names, Aran.

—Alorael, who doesn't exactly know the criteria. It's UBB, so chances are good that they don't make sense anyway.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A3 max skill level? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 23 2005 12:12 Profile Homepage #7
I think you could probably get higher with disadvantages and a willingness to pick fights with wandering monsters at the very end of the game. Alien Beasts and [creature(s) responsible for plague removed for spoiler content] give some good experience.

—Alorael, who doesn't see how helpful that is, though. Unless you really need more skills and really want to backtrack all the way to civilization and trainers, the end game is for ending the game.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Biomass Future-- Will It Replace Oil in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, April 23 2005 12:04 Profile Homepage #9
I agree with Alec. While there are many sources of power with various problems, most involve at least some degree of investment now for payoff in the future, which tends to be unpopular with the major companies that would have to drive this kind of change. Also, the sheer amount of change and construction it would require (every car on the road given a new engine? The construction of hundreds or thousands of wind, solar, tidal, and hydroelectric plants?) is prohibitive.

The other sources all merit further research and development, but fission is something we have now. No, it's not a perfect solution, but it's better than what we use now. With electric cars already produced and cheap, clean (ignoring waste disposal, which is admittedly a sticky issue), reliable, and safe fission a reality, there is no reason for the nuclear paranoia that seems so widespread today.

Pointing at Three Mile Island and claiming that nuclear power is too dangerous is like destroying all aircraft because of the Hindenburg.

—Alorael, who still sees something of the same problem for fission, however. Third world countries often don't have the resources and developed countries are justifiably leery of handing out nuclear material. On the other hand, working on that is a better alternative than dealing with a world-wide collapse in slow motion as fossil fuel reserves run out.
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Una ballena bañandose con un pez esponja in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, April 22 2005 20:48 Profile Homepage #21
Y ahora puedo preguntar algo que me ha molestado hace meses a los que deben saber. ¿Es un "topic" un "tema" o un "tópico" o una palabra que no he encontrado? ¿Cómo se dice "post" o él que lo hace?

—Alorael, a quien esos pensamientos ocurren. Si intenta comunicar en español a veces y no quiere soñar como lo que es, necesitará saber estas cosas. Y probablemente necesitará cambiar su acento, pero empieza con lo que sí puede hacer.
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Does Spiderweb improve your English? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, April 22 2005 20:28 Profile Homepage #41
Some lead by example, some lead by correction, and some lead by volume. There's room for all kinds of learning experiences.

—Alorael, who has found his fondness for more exotic punctuation to be much less than it once was. There was a time when he would have used semicolons liberally; alas, such days have ended. There is a reason: the full stop has a charm all its own. And nothing beats unnecessary emphasis on nonstandard sentences! Especially not excessive emphasis after a fragment!!!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
How evil would it be ... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, April 22 2005 20:24 Profile Homepage #4
There is a lower bound on permissible stupidity here. No matter how much it may seem like we're all-embracing, we really aren't.

—Alorael, who is not prepared to embrace the joys of communicating by locked topic. If such a thing were to happen, he would consider it his duty to delete the offending topics and chastise the offending persons.
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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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, April 22 2005 20:06 Profile Homepage #473
quote:
Originally written by Papa Donatus II:

I'm a paedophile
And apparently not an American. Get thee behind me, dæmonic spelling, before I curl into a defensive f?tal position!

—Alorael, who wouldn't want TM to be the head of a scout troop regardless of sexual orientation. Corrupting youth is plain old bad.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
NEW POPE! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, April 22 2005 20:01 Profile Homepage #58
Until society accepts killing the mothers, isn't killing the children a start? Besides, what with exponential population growth, killing a baby today is as good as killing two tomorrow or four the next day!

—Alorael, who supposes the same argument can be made for killing a mother today. However, mothers are a known evil. Children are always an unknown, except children these days are never as good as they were back in the day. Procreation is a perpetual downward spiral.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, April 22 2005 12:04 Profile Homepage #51
quote:
Originally written by EviL_TiM:

number of monikers>387.5
quote:
Originally written by me:

All the guesses have been wrong so far, for what that's worth.
Apply the transitive property of inequalities and you have your answer!

[Edit: Line
breaks fixed.]

—Alorael, who asks only that you read the topic and maybe think for a minute before posting. -1 cookie!

[ Friday, April 22, 2005 12:06: Message edited by: Does anybody even read these? ]
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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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, April 22 2005 11:50 Profile Homepage #471
I don't think you get a vote.

—Alorael, who wouldn't mind seeing TM as pope. It would be highly entertaining, if nothing else. And the eschatologists would be in heaven, so to speak, with the pun very much intended.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
99% of all Statistics are made up. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, April 22 2005 11:25 Profile Homepage #73
If all youngsters were to plead age as an excuse to turn down the joys of proper writing, no one would ever learn to write properly! There might be no subjunctive or conditional moods ever again!

—Alorael, who doesn't have fake teeth. He has no teeth at all! Sure, it makes talk about the good old days difficult, but he can still mumble to himself about how great it was before there were cars on the roads and bright electric lights ruining the night sky.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 18:21 Profile Homepage #47
Your list starts and ends in the middle of my list, and in fact yours is almost exactly the middle of my list. It's missing quite a few entries in the middle, but it's still more than I expect anyone else to get. Thus, you win a cookie!

IMAGE(http://www.methuen.k12.ma.us/pathfinders/images/chocolate%20cookie.jpg)

—Alorael, who is still selfishly keeping his brownies for himself. He finds the impossibility of posting an image with the word cookie in its URL irritating, incidentally.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Do you think there is a Hell? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 18:14 Profile Homepage #298
So here's a question. Would anyone choose to go mountain climbing if there were no risk of death or serious injury?

—Alorael, who believes people would. An adrenaline rush is an adrenaline rush. Other things can similarly have positive rewards for effort without consequences for failure. Why does that risk exist, then? If God isn't going to run out of carrots but he can either give or withold them, why does he apply the stick so often?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
99% of all Statistics are made up. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 18:06 Profile Homepage #59
quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
Originally written by 1001011001000:

if I was to actually come to these forums
Since thinly-disguised spamming and instruction in the English language both seem to be in fashion at the moment, I'm going to criticise your failure to use the subjunctive mood.
lol!

[Edit: Okay, seriously. I can't actually post this. It hurts too much. No, this little edited-in addition doesn't help, but it assuages the pangs of guilt and, as I noted in the signature, total shame.]

—Alorael, who has sunk to a horrible new low. He may have to snipe this topic and then snipe himself in shame. Oh, the burning shame...

[ Thursday, April 21, 2005 18:07: Message edited by: He who posts last... ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A4 wants in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 18:04 Profile Homepage #89
The last thing Avernum needs is an even lower common denominator. Maybe Jeff had better stop using so much dialogue. It gets in the way.

—Alorael, who doesn't quite consider the Exile cheats very impressive. The E2 party advice is okay, maybe, but it's certainly not a party he'd ever choose to use. The E3 advice is both fairly obvious and fairly unhelpful. What makes dishes so critical?
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Do you think there is a Hell? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 17:59 Profile Homepage #295
Or God could let us accomplish without letting us fail in such a way that others suffer. And while triumphing in the face of adversity feels good, I don't think anyone would protest an end to mosquito bites, say, or hayfever. Or genocide.

—Alorael, who thinks divine editing would constitute something of a breach of free will and/or meaningful existence. If humans were left with no way to accurately perceive the world they might as well not have any power to act at all.
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Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 16:18 Profile Homepage #43
I don't think UBB allows you to alter post counts. I recall a mod board discussion (see, it's relevant to the original topic!) about dropping spammer post counts to 0, but it was never meant to be.

—Alorael, who would also be very unhappy if his beautiful post count disappeared. He might be so unhappy that he would be forced to register a new account every day instead of just changing his moniker. That would be a sad thing.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Hello to all! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 16:15 Profile Homepage #21
Jelly is what we put on toast. Silly people across large bodies of water!

—Alorael, who does not call it jelly if it wobbles alarmingly when poked and comes in colors nature never intended.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
99% of all Statistics are made up. in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 16:12 Profile Homepage #52
But you could wring a good ten more posts out of slowly revealing the trick, Thuryl!

—Alorael, who finds that the trick to concealing spam is to have a signature that artificially makes your post longer.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum -v- Exile in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 15:59 Profile Homepage #10
Okay, let us consider this a welcome topic instead.

Welcome, Dyl! You have learned the first lesson in Spidwebbery: leave your sanity at the door. You have also learned the second: Exile and Avernum make for a good but fruitless argument.

—Alorael, who will provide enlightenment as to the nature of the third lesson: it is better to ignore angry people than to provoke them. They are undoubtedly more experienced at dishing it out than you are at returning it.
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Moderator Board - What are they up to? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, April 21 2005 12:12 Profile Homepage #40
It may actually be a year, but I think I'm still a week or two short. And to think that once upon a time I would be close to adding a new digit to my post count by this time...

—Alorael, who passed those numbers a while ago.
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