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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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| Erika is a stuck up ***** in Richard White Games | |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 14:21
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Not if I can help it! This topic isn't completely awful, but it's also worthless and in my GC territory. In other words... blam! —Alorael, who adds one more to his collection. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Poor Man's Starbound? in Richard White Games | |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 14:18
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A bad download, maybe? I've had trouble with some Ambrosia files before, but usually downloading again from a different mirror resolves the corrupted compression errors. —Alorael, who also appreciates the Polaris storyline for being one of the few optional plots in games that you really do stumble into accidentally. And then stumble into again when trying to get into a different plotline. Those Vell-os are everywhere! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Poor Man's Starbound? in General | |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 14:18
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A bad download, maybe? I've had trouble with some Ambrosia files before, but usually downloading again from a different mirror resolves the corrupted compression errors. —Alorael, who also appreciates the Polaris storyline for being one of the few optional plots in games that you really do stumble into accidentally. And then stumble into again when trying to get into a different plotline. Those Vell-os are everywhere! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Programming these games... how long does it take? in General | |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 14:14
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Jeff doesn't read these forums, so don't expect a response. You can email him personally and see if he's willing to talk, or you can take advice from here that I am totally unqualified to give. —Alorael, who also thinks a look at Jeff's shareware tips can't go amiss. It may not tell you everything you want to know, but it's sure to tell you something. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Is it just me - or... in General | |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 13:30
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Jeff is slow, but if you aren't a Spidweb regular, I daresay you might be grateful for the notification, late or no. —Alorael, who is more entertained by the attempt at BoE news. Why not just include links to the Lyceum and Alexandria and leave it to the people who know and care? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Signatures... in General | |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 13:27
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I guess my signature doesn't count, but it made that poll rather hard to complete honestly. If you can't come up with the answers for yourself based on my far too numerous postings, you don't deserve to know anyway. —Alorael, who is reasonably sure that a fair number of Spidwebbers believe his ever-changing signature should be a capital crime as well. Such is life. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| AGE? HOW OLD ARE WE? in General | |
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written Friday, July 16 2004 13:20
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See, this is why sharing ages over the internet leads only to stupidity. There are the older teenagers who act like elementary school students, and bad ones at that. There are the preteens who think they can act mature and end up acting like elementary school students. There are the few people of all ages who manage to act like rational human beings. I'd much rather group people by useful types than by age. Wittily caustic, nauseatingly bubbly (no bias, I swear!), obnoxiously egocentric, and childishly petulant seem to be the overrepresented categories. Some of them are much better and much more honest at identifying themselves than others. I'm sure you can figure it out. ?Alorael, who just found a tangent and wandered away with it. He'd apologize if he were sincerely sorry, but instead he'll just mutter and hope nobody notices because they're too busy trying to put each other into nice, neat little boxes. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Whats your favorite in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, July 15 2004 12:59
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By the time I run out of quests to do, I'm quite happy to get on to the hacking, slashing, and maiming of assorted beings in the name of causing a cool explosion and getting out of the game. —Alorael, who has very little patience for A3 when it loses what little thread of plot it had to begin with. On the bright side, there are enough quests that it truly takes an effort to get to that point. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| AGE? HOW OLD ARE WE? in General | |
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written Thursday, July 15 2004 12:52
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I would like to be a Saunders. Where do I sign up? ?Alorael, who is a member of the first two of FBM's groups. He may even have a card somewhere. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| E3: Basalt building in New Cotra in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 14:20
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As noted above, just say "Sand" to Commander Johnson and you'll be able to enter. It's not terribly exciting or useful, but it is, in the words of the GIFTS, neat. —Alorael, who would advise reading the spoilers in the topic if you want spoilers pertaining to the topic. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Exile III Editor question in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 13:26
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E3 doesn't let you alter SDFs in the editor, unfortunately. Unless Jeff wants to hack your file, which I doubt, you're stuck doing it over again. On the bright side, there is almost certainly something you missed the first time around. Probably many things. Exile is like that. —Alorael, whose advice for solving the woes of unregistered play is registering. C'mon, it's cheap and you know you want to see what happens with those troglodytes and giants... Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| avernum 1 can i have the full list of character editor items in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 13:14
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There's no way to add any item that's not given in one of the lists, and those you can check for yourself. —Alorael, who even has the latest version of the game. Unless you have a black market version of the game that comes with advanced features in the editor, you're out of luck. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| GIFTS: Love them, or hate them. Which will it be? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 13:10
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Barcodes don't help. Even if it identifies GIFTS by number, you'll still have to find the right number because you'll be told to get the quest from Spider. But only after you've talked to Spider! —Alorael, who can't imagine that the GIFTS would call each other by number. Even if they did, they'd probably get them wrong. Besides, do they ever stand still long enough for a barcode reader to identify them? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Hello. in General | |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 13:04
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Philistine. Don't go saying good things about sanity. It's all wrong in the end. So, on that note... Welcome, Dracanis! Leave your sanity at the door no matter what other people tell you! —Alorael, who should also point out that yes, multiple posts in a row by the same person are frowned upon. That's what the edit button is for. Two way conversations are usually better over private messages or AIM, if you can get the AIM working without the many posts. Irony is good. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Happy Birthday, TGM! in General | |
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written Wednesday, July 14 2004 12:56
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Another year, another account. Or five, as the case may be. —Alorael, who wishes TGM all the best on his birthday across many timezones. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| E3- Thought Crystals in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 14:33
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The Thought Crystals get you out of one moderately difficult battle. If you win the battle by killing your enemies, you set yourself up for more trouble later on and missing an important but not essential meeting. However, since you don't need to win the fight, just get through it, the Thought Crystals aren't amazingly helpful. That's pretty vague to avoid spoilers, but I think you can get the idea. The Thought Crystals are a minor help if you know what you're doing and a moderate to significant help if you don't. —Alorael, who wouldn't take Wyrmslayer anyway. It's not a very good sword against anything but lizards and dragons, of which there aren't too many. The Cooling Amulet is a better deal. It probably slightly reduces all fire damage. Probably, but not certainly. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Authority of the Bible in General | |
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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 14:24
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If by Bible you mean Christian Bible, how can the Torah be under a different category? The Torah is in the Bible too. Okay, that's enough nitpicking. I'm another in the camp of heathens. I believe there are valuable messages in many different scriptures. However, the fact that they've passed through human hands, human pens, and human minds over hundreds and thousands of years renders them completely suspect. Even if God did write the originals, what we have now is derivative, edited, censored, and repackaged. —Alorael, who takes his moral judgements from himself and necessarily from his environment and upbringing. One can use the Bible to justify many good things, but one can also use it to justify atrocities. For that reason, if no other, it should be carefully considered piece by piece, not swallowed whole as the Word of God. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Religion, Homosexuality, the Usual in General | |
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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 14:19
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Kel: Ritual uncleanliness isn't excommunication by any means. Immersion in the mikvah bath was and is the re-purifying experience of choice, and after one is purified there is no further problem. Overwhelming: Your Hebrew translation is not only piecemeal, it is incorrect. The word mishkab does, in fact, mean bed. It is used metaphorically to mean sleep, and by extension that has come to imply sex. That's reading a little to far between the lines, though. The Bible says quite clearly that it's talking about a bed. You're also falling back on circular reasoning. If God forbids homosexuality, than you can stick condemnation for homosexuality everywhere. If He doesn't, however, you can't. Since that's exactly the topic under debate right now, assuming your conclusion as a given creates holes in your logic. Micael: Right or wrong, your view doesn't add to the discussion. Right now we're going into semantics and etymologies in order to "prove" whether or not the Bible forbids homosexuality and, if so, how strongly. ?Alorael, who could also make a case for God giving everyone the right to make his or her own choice by leaving so much ambiguity in His words. Essentially, he allowed anyone to say that He said to do anything. What each individual does with such free license is the true measure of that person's worth. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Misc. Scenario ideas/wishlist in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 13:33
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Formello's not a mining town as far as I know. It has lots of farmland, not mines. The mines are all around Fort Draco. —Alorael, who thinks the Ice Pudding has some potential if the details are filled in. Focusing on reward before scenario is a bad thing, though, especially if you're not writing the scenario. Specific plots are not often picked up by itinerant scenario designers, either. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| If, for one whole day, you could be ANY race in Avernum... in General | |
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written Tuesday, July 13 2004 13:24
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Calista Flockhart does not approve. [Edit: You'd think a post this short would have to make sense, but no. Fallacies abound!] —Alorael, who would be a Mages or a Priest. I'll have to get back on you on the latter, though, because I'm not signing up until I know what subspecies of priest I am. Curio adrogans f. sp. Hebraeus? [ Tuesday, July 13, 2004 13:26: Message edited by: Sizzlin' CPU ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Timed Events in A3 in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Monday, July 12 2004 14:19
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The only critical event is the one around day 160. Incidentally, I don't think fiddling with the date will prevent catastrophe once you get the first message warning you that the world is about to go to hell. There's an option in the editor to turn of the timer, though. Other than that, there's a steady progression of minor decay. Nothing is game shattering, but a few minor quests can become unobtainable or impossible to complete. If you hate timers, just turn the clock back to day 1 every once in a while. As far as Blades of Avernum goes, whether or not there are day-dependent events depends entirely upon the whim of the designer. Some choose to use them and some don't (or some did and some didn't in BoE). —Alorael, who abused the A3 editor himself until he was ready to deal with day 160 (which happened on day 162 or so). Being rushed isn't fun, and games are supposed to be. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| In the afterlife... in General | |
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written Monday, July 12 2004 14:14
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I believe one cannot reach Purgatory unless one is Christian, according to the test (and according to hard-line Christians). Thus, it is a perfectly accurate representation of where we're headed if it turns out that those Christians are right. As for Dante's subdivisions of Hell (Limbo sounds like the suburbs of Dis, doesn't it?), well, leave it to Dante to come up with something like that. —Alorael, who wouldn't want to Dis such a great man. Hee hee snort, that was an awful pun, wasn't it? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| dragons?love em hate em? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Monday, July 12 2004 14:11
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What is there not to like about dragons? They hate humans, but it's rather justifiable. Humans drove them into the caves, and then humans proceed to butcher two of the five remaining dragons and imprison another two. For gigantic, powerful beasts with centuries of grudge, I'd say they're remarkably understanding. Not once do they decide to level Avernum just because. —Alorael, who has to admit that it helps that Motrax has adorable cats. And Khoth has a library that is truly worthy of copious amounts of drool. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, July 12 2004 14:07
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Unless sliths hit the statistical limit on age and die off before reaching gargantuan sizes, they probably don't grow like reptiles. Nowhere in any Avernum game is there any mention of ridiculously huge sliths. Since you end up fighting most of them, you'd be notified. —Alorael, who feels certain that Jeff would have thrown giant sliths at A1 parties if he thought giant sliths were a concern. One way or another, they're not. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Religion, Homosexuality, the Usual in General | |
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written Sunday, July 11 2004 09:43
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Actually, homosexuality has not been universally condemned throughout human history. Greco-Roman culture embraced it. Others saw nothing wrong with it. But they were pagans. And that brings up another point, doesn't it. What happens to people who never hear of Christianity and die without ever knowing that they have a savior to believe in, let alone believing him? Are they damned? If I see a murder, I would definitely do anything I could to stop it. And yes, I would condemn the murderer (though probably not with the word "sin."). But that's judgement, too. I would be judging that the murder was unjustified and not in self-defense. Judgement is any process that converts observation into understanding. We judge everything constantly. I keep hearing that homosexuals are barred from Heaven. Fair enough, but can you cite the passage that says this? My experience with the New Testament is nil, and it certainly isn't in the Old Testament. You have fallen victim to Paradise Lost Syndrome! The serpent is in the Garden of Eden, yes. The serpent is not Satan. Nowhere does it say, implicitly or explicitly, that the serpent is anything but an anthropomorphic snake. Satan made his first Genesis appearance in Paradise Lost, and he quickly became one of the most popular and enduring non-Biblical religious memes. Accusing gays of spreading AIDS is simply factually incorrect. It was originally termed GRIDS (gay-related immunodeficiency syndrome), and everyone who showed the symptoms was immediately labeled gay. Yes, many of the first victims were gay, but there were far more heterosexuals with the disease than were originally acknowledged. And now it's predominantly spread by heterosexuals. A tangent, but I'd like to think it's an important distinction. ?Alorael, who would like to see this article. PM away! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |