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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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E3 - Gremlin's riddle in The Exile Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, March 12 2005 10:47 Profile Homepage #6 If you wander around among the poppies without getting put to sleep you can find a moderately helpful item. —Alorael, who likes the gremlins a lot more in E3 than in A3. Riddles are easy when you get to pick from a list of answers. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
User Friendlyness in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, March 12 2005 10:38 Profile Homepage #2 Avernum: Movement is fine if you have a numeric keypad. Laptops and compulsive arrow users are definitely in trouble. I can't manage Avernum or Nethergate without a full keyboard. There are also a surprising number of posts asking for help that turn out to come from players who didn't realize that they could move diagonally. Graphics: I agree. Avernum's terrain is pretty, but the items are a mixed bag. It's really the creatures that get me, though. Nephils look like sliths, all humans look the same, and so on. When I picture things from Exile/Avernum, I picture them with the prettier E3/BoE graphics. —Alorael, who has never had any lockup problems playing all the games in Mac OS 9. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
cehck tihs out in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, March 11 2005 14:58 Profile Homepage #31 Counterexample by long word doesn't disprove the research. It's seems plausible to me that common words that we see all the time get "aliased" by our brains. When we see something similar, we pull out the right word. Don't tell me you've never read something fast and realized that you accidentally turned a word into a similar but nonsensical word. Longer words don't get automatically processed. We actually read them out, so we don't have any facility with reassembling them from parts. It's not that our brains are good at decoding jumbled messes, it's just that are brains are good at ignoring the specifics of the middle when a quick glance shows that the right innards are present. —Alorael, who thinks the Spanish would probably work better if verbs were somehow written so that only the root were jumbled and the conjugated end and suffixes were not. That can easily be most of the verb, though, so maybe only suffixes need to remain in place. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Geneforge 3 Questions in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, March 11 2005 14:36 Profile Homepage #5 Jeff releases everything for Mac first because he writes them on a Mac. Then he releases it and works on the port. They usually take a month or two, but the exact time is hard to determine because the PC beta testers can find weird and unsquishable bugs. —Alorael, who has heard that Macs are very difficult to come by in Germany. Maybe he just consorts with too many heathen PC users over there, though. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A3 Trainer Released! in The Avernum Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, March 11 2005 14:34 Profile Homepage #15 quote: Originally written by Flaming_valkrye: sum guy told me to ask about the gf3 trainer here... How do i use it iv done everything needed but it just stays the same!please help me before i go crazy with curiosity! :confused: Since GF3 hasn't been released yet, you probably mean GF2 or Avernum 3. Or are you a cheating beta tester...? —Alorael, who otherwise has nothing to add. Yes, this post probably could have been more useful. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
the PDA Movement in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, March 11 2005 14:29 Profile Homepage #7 The projected number of purchasers versus the amount of work required to port Avernum doesn't make the effort time well spent. There are more people with desktops and laptops than various handheld computers. Out of those, how many would buy Avernum? And out of those, how many would buy Avernum if they could get it for a "real" computer instead? Jeff would make more money by creating Geneforge 3 (or 4), or Avernum 4, or whatever else he thinks of for full-sized computers, and Jeff does all his designing with money in mind. —Alorael, who would guess that the only audience likely to buy Avernum for PDA would already have Avernum for computer and would be equally likely to buy a new game for computer. Thus, the new game is a better investment of work. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Just a random question in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, March 10 2005 19:38 Profile Homepage #33 Monty Python has weighed in on the subject of what could be called the worst joke in the world if mass killings are your idea of bad. —Alorael, who also considers bad very much in the eye of the beholder in matters of humor. There will always be a place in his heart for really, really bad jokes and especially the most repulsive puns ever written or spoken. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avatars in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, March 10 2005 19:34 Profile Homepage #2 Custom avatars hardly take any space or bandwidth. Both come from the host, not Spiderweb. The problem was page loading times for dialup users who had to wait for the atrociously large avatars of certain members. Those with dysfunctional caches were also at a disadvantage. —Alorael, who misses avatars. He doesn't miss the loading times, which at their worst were even a problem for faster connections. Part of that was probably from the fact that his computer is always one step ahead of toasterdom, but part of it was a genuine problem. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
cehck tihs out in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, March 10 2005 19:30 Profile Homepage #11 Not only am I certain that this has come up on these very boards before, I am certain that Archmage Alex posted in the discussion. Lfies fnnuy lkie taht. —Alorael, who still finds it both entertaining and educational. It certainly explains how any communication at all manages to occur over the internet lol. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Tower of Magi Demon in Exile I in The Exile Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, March 10 2005 19:21 Profile Homepage #21 So should... You know, I can't write that with a straight face. —Alorael, who deems this topic barely shy of needing to be relocated to General. The proportion of on-topic E1 posts to General material is rapidly decreasing. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
4543 in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, March 9 2005 15:54 Profile Homepage #35 That still doesn't explain the 4543. —Alorael, who likes his numbers round and meaningful. That's not even a rounded integer power of e! Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Surprise in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, March 9 2005 15:45 Profile Homepage #91 For what it's worth, I started changing my PDN daily before Gizmo joined. —Alorael, who agrees with Aran about fair use and reciprocal arrangements. Please stand still while your infraction is processed and targeted. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A very important date, and some statistics. in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, March 9 2005 15:39 Profile Homepage #15 And here you know the real reason why there's a posting spree. Near the end of the cold season, tempers are frayed and flames become more frequent. As do typographical errors, apparently. —Alorael, who would like to congratulate Aran on surviving to reach this momentous occasion. He'll also congratulate Slithy McPostleg on surpassing Aran's spammery. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Hey Alorael in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, March 9 2005 15:30 Profile Homepage #44 Titillation aside, a nude person gets a great deal of attention just like someone wearing purple and green velvet robes and carrying a monkey would get attention. Things that stand out from the ordinary get noticed. If everyone were nude all the time it wouldn't be so much of a stare magnet, but then imagine how someone with a shirt and pants on would stand out! —Alorael, who disagrees that humans are the most complex species (physically, at least). Do you think you could handle walking with more than two legs? How about more than six? Plus humans don't have shiny carapaces, obvious segmentation, or bulbous compound eyes. All that may be an acquired taste, though... Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Best story? in The Exile Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, March 9 2005 15:27 Profile Homepage #23 I view E1 as the lengthy introduction to the world. Only the very end has anything to do with plot, and the plot carries over into E2. I like E1, but E2 is the one that actually has things happening. —Alorael, who doesn't think he would have enjoyed E2 nearly as much if he weren't already familiar with Exile. Seeing Cotra in ruins is much worse when you remember shopping there fresh out of Fort Exile. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Hey Alorael in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, March 8 2005 14:24 Profile Homepage #33 I'm guessing that no more than 500 accounts are duplicates. That still leaves 5000 real members. Some may not have posted, but they're members. —Alorael, who has recently come to appreciate even more Sherlock and other Mac finding tools. Trying to find a lost thing on a PC isn't fun. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Hey Alorael in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, March 8 2005 10:49 Profile Homepage #25 Saying that the human body is beautiful and saying it can't be pornographic are two different things. That infamous goatse is quite clearly the latter, and I defy you to twist (or untwist) it into the former. —Alorael, who will be forced to insist that the human body can be sexual. There are five thousands registered members on these forums, and I very much doubt that all of them were the result of artificial insemination, spontaneous generation, storks, and immaculate conception. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Who are you??? in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, March 7 2005 12:37 Profile Homepage #67 I've been called "she" a few times. I think it's the -ael that does it when pronounced "iel." The general assumption, of which I too am guilty, is that people on the internet who have no obvious gender are male until proven otherwise. It works pretty well by the numbers, but it's a bit obnoxious. —Alorael, whose signatures help keep the number of people who misjudge his gender to a minimum. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
That Sort of Thing in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, March 7 2005 12:33 Profile Homepage #17 I am now taking applications from people whose names begin with K. Anyone? —Alorael, who will do what he must do to facilitate his titling. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Surprise in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, March 7 2005 12:30 Profile Homepage #65 Saunders, Rache, and Riibu have custom titles. Are there any others of the female persuasion with titles? —Alorael, who is now the only Blademaster. In his own special way he has not one but two custom titles! Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Post 200... in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, March 6 2005 18:10 Profile Homepage #21 According to our average post rates, I have been posting ever so slightly more than Kelandon. That doesn't seem right to me, but there's no arguing with numbers. —Alorael, who has already claimed to be a spammer nonpareil. This just proves it with solid evidence. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
That Sort of Thing in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, March 6 2005 18:02 Profile Homepage #6 Don't let your custom title prevent you from holding up your head and flaunting your hidden but still important new title, Kel! Stick it to the man! —Alorael, who wishes Demonslayer the best of luck with his next 1000 posts. May they go forth and be fruitful. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Surprise in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, March 6 2005 17:44 Profile Homepage #43 Posting on forums other than Spiderweb on which Drakey also participates has a statistically significant positive correlation with one's chances of obtaining a custom title. —Alorael, who can also add that being an awful human being gets you custom titles. Canned and Banned are real crowd pleasers. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Relative location... in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, March 6 2005 11:53 Profile Homepage #4 I'm at a poll right now. A relative location poll, to be specific. —Alorael, who also just had to say it. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A3: The first party of explorers. in The Avernum Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, March 6 2005 10:31 Profile Homepage #36 X has a tenured academic position. He's not required to be useful anymore. He has time, resources, and immense magical powers, and he can make magical multiplying plants if he pleases. —Alorael, who would really like to know what Xian items Tucker still has. Could there be an Xian Wand of anvil flinging? Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00

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