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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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Newbe Poll in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, April 21 2007 20:11 Profile Homepage #11 I'm pretty sure I explained before that I'm out of patience with discussion of newbishness. Don't talk about it. Don't think about it. That's the fastest way to get over it. —Alorael, who can see no good coming from this thread. Among its other sins, it is guilty of promoting grumbling. Thus, death to die. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Learn how it's done. in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, April 20 2007 09:29 Profile Homepage #10 (1) What's your main goal in life? To reproduce, and secondarily to remain alive and healthy in order to reproduce. No, that's the goal of life in general. I don't know. (2) If you won a million dollars, what would be your first thought? In order, probabably: Wow! Now I can afford things! No, now I can afford to get rid of loans. No, I have to give a bunch to good causes. Hey, how much of this do I get after taxes, anyway? (3) When you are mad; do you usually stay angry or do you yell to release the anger? I don't really do anger very much. When I am angry I tend to find somewhere to brood alone until I feel better. My temper is inherited but I resolved not to let it show and I think I've done a pretty good job. (4) Tell us an anecdote of anything that happened to you today. I had a discussion about the effects of the SAT/SATII Writing on, well, writing ability. The general opinion seems to be that SAT writing is antithetical to prose fiction, academic writing, and journalism. In fact, the only thing it resembles even slightly is forum post writing. (5) What's your current Philosophy on life? Maximize good, where good is considered pleasant experiences, and minimize harm. Yes, that's supposed to be for other people as well as myself. In theory, anyway. (6) If you created a deadly disease, what would you call it? Thuryl (7) What should you be doing right now? Homework, shower sleep. Nethergate. (8) If this were Southpark, what character do you think you'd be? I have no idea. I don't do TV and I don't really do pop culture. Or culture in general. (9) What occupations you wanted to be when you were a kid ? A veterinarian or a writer. (10) What happened to those dreams? I lost interest in the former quickly. The latter has always looked good, except I like being able to live securely and, well, eat. Maybe one day I'll still manage to write the great American novel, but it seems less and less likely. (11) Describe the last dream you can remember. I very rarely remember dreams, and the ones I do remember are usually much like daily life with a few bizarre quirks. I really can't remember anything exciting from anytime in the last, oh, year. (12) If you were a supermodel, which supermodel would you be? Model T (13) If you had to live in a hole, what kind of creature would you be? A hobbit! (14) If you could have one thing right now, what would it be and why? A noun, by definition. (15) Name one thing about you that embarrasses you. Alorael. (16) Do you usually walk around your house with sandals or barefoot? Either barefoot or wearing shoes. I'm not a fan of sandals. (17) Have you ever gotten something you really wanted but thought you wouldn't get? Not that I can think of, but not because I have bad luck. I just very rarely want things. I have a constrained emotional palette. (18) Name one thing you are presently excited about or fascinated by. The propagation of the tag error in questions 7 and 8. [Edit: I'll remove the line break in my eye before complaining about the tag in yours.] —Alorael, who would've thought that more people would notice. Or make their own tags. Or something. [ Friday, April 20, 2007 13:03: Message edited by: Recipete ] Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Random stupidity (supposed to be funny) in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, April 20 2007 08:52 Profile Homepage #2 I am now of the opinion that Starta should be the first town in every scenario. It's far superior to anything Warrior's Grove could ever hope to be. —Alorael, who only thinks it could be improved with a cameo by Angus Thermopyle. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Operating Systems in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 19 2007 15:50 Profile Homepage #40 quote: Originally written by Sarasaphilia: I offically recommend getting a Mac computer, even if you're not going to use the Mac part. Just install Boot Camp/Paralells, and you can play 99% of the programs in the world. I think well over 1% of the programs in the world don't run on Windows. —Alorael, who is saying nothing about the prevalence of Windows and everything about servers, supercomputers, dinosaur computers hooked up to research equipment, and the thousands of simple programs running on simple computers in household appliances worldwide. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Traps warning reset in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 19 2007 08:52 Profile Homepage #1 I don't think the warning ever resets. Yes, it's a pain. —Alorael, who now saves before clicking chests in areas he's already visited. Better safe than losing five hours of progress. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
How does wearing armor affect spell casting in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 19 2007 08:42 Profile Homepage #3 Yes, encumberance is that -X% chance to hit. —Alorael, who isn't quite sure what the conversion is between hit reduction and spellcasting penalty. It might be a 5% chance to miscast for every 5% reduction in accuracy, but it might not be. He's never used enough armor to notice. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Some of us just aren't too bright... in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 18 2007 12:37 Profile Homepage #11 Proof. —Alorael, who admits that backing up and archiving aren't quite the same. They're close enough, though. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Some of us just aren't too bright... in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, April 17 2007 20:18 Profile Homepage #8 What evidence do you have that most or even any of the quoted individuals are white? —Alorael, who thinks internet people are stupid. He can back up that claim, too, and he would if Aran hadn't beaten him to it. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Exile II: Ominous Crypt in the Vahnati lands in The Exile Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, April 17 2007 15:53 Profile Homepage #3 If you still have a save from before, I'd like to know if "lain" is also an acceptable answer. —Alorael, who wants negative answers in the form of a nil. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
B Is For Bye Bye in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, April 17 2007 10:50 Profile Homepage #17 quote: Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar: I'm confident that if for some reason pollen plants all died out (not going to happen) we would still be able to turn to the ocean for food. It's going to take a lot more than this to whipe out humanity. If all bee-pollinated plants went extinct, there would be a rather messy ecological fallout. I doubt humanity would be in any danger of extinction, but mass starvation in some areas is possible. Or maybe not. I really don't know how important bees are for any plants, much less crops. —Alorael, who really thinks this ought to be an easy hypothesis to test. Surround a beehive with cell phones that constantly call each other, answer, and send signals everywhere. See what happens. Do it as far from population centers and towers as possible. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
VTech in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, April 17 2007 10:43 Profile Homepage #25 How, exactly, do you propose that unarmed students attack a man with two guns? I'll admit to limited knowledge of handguns, but it seems quite reasonable to me that a charging mass of students would just have meant easier targets. A small mob would have just been a dead mob, and a large mob is both rather hard to assemble while someone is shooting at it and quite likely to result in, say, 40 dead even if it gets the gunman in the end. That's not altruism, that's stupidity. —Alorael, who also doesn't think that he'd be able to think clearly enough to organize anyone even if they were thinking clearly enough to help. Attacking a man with a gun alone from a significant distance is suicidal when the man apparently knows what he's doing. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Exile II: Ominous Crypt in the Vahnati lands in The Exile Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, April 16 2007 15:41 Profile Homepage #1 It's an anagram puzzle. All of the word pairs are rearrangements of each other. The last one is missing N, A, I, and L, so the answer is "nail." —Alorael, who can't remember that puzzle. Maybe it was removed in A2. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
What have you been reading lately? in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, April 16 2007 10:17 Profile Homepage #370 Advertising for a book subliterately is not advertising for that book at all! —Alorael, who has determined that his mood is suprisingly affected by which book he's reading even when he has not, in fact, touched it anytime recently. He has therefore decided that depressing books must be read as quickly as possible. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
More questions in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Sunday, April 15 2007 17:35 Profile Homepage #13 1. Why did you join the boards? Why not? I didn't have a good reason at the time and I still don't. 2. If you did, why did you change your name? I went years without changing my name. Then, when I hit 10k posts, I felt a need to protest my lack of a custom title by changing my name daily. 3. Have you even noticed that I changed mine (besides now?) I haven't even noticed now. [Edit: Tags. Hoorj.] —Alorael, who should point out that changing your name is a sign of feebleness of wit and dissolute temperament. You have been warned. [ Sunday, April 15, 2007 17:50: Message edited by: The Promised Quince ] Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
10k blessing, or 10k cheating? in The Avernum Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, April 14 2007 22:42 Profile Homepage #1 You buy a special skill for everyone in your party. I believe it's Gymnastics, but it's been a while and I could be wrong. —Alorael, who definitely thinks it's a worthwhile purchase. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Should BoE editor be updated??? in Tech Support
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Saturday, April 14 2007 09:55 Profile Homepage #9 Owning Windows should never be a requirement for playing a Mac game. —Alorael, who supposes you could probably do it with Darwine. Really, that's one project that Apple should be supporting. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A Questionaire That Isn't A Poll in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, April 13 2007 21:30 Profile Homepage #6 Q: What's your favorite color? A: Octarine Q: What's your favorite Spiderweb game? A: A2. Or Nethergate. Or A2. Or Nethergate... Q: What's your favorite computer game? A: I honestly don't know. A2 and Nethergate are serious contenders. So are Alpha Centauri and Angband, judging by sheer time spent playing them. Q: What was your first Spiderweb game? A: E1 Q: Are you in school (including college): A: I follow the pedestrian herds. Q: Nethergate, Exile, Avernum, or Geneforge? A: Nethergavernum. Q: Rate Homeland: Stone of Night (1 being the worst thing ever, 10 being mediocre) A: 3. It's terrible, but in all seriousness it's just a very poorly designed and fairly ugly game. There are worse things out there. Q: Are you German, or have any German blood in you? A: Austrian blood, but no German that I know of. Q: The British Empire is/was A: Well illuminated around the clock. Q: Emperor Tullegolar is A: A firebrand in the henhouse. Q: TM should be A: Able remain just civil enough to be on Spiderweb. And he should be on Spiderweb. Q: Alorael should be A: Me. Hey, I got my wish! Q: Dikiyoba is A: Using her talents for evil, not good. Q: Jeff Vogel is A: A good designer for the most part Q: Richard White is A: Indeed he is! Q: This questionaire is good or bad? A: I've had worse. —Alorael, who has also had better. And wittier. And more enthralling, too. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Yet another senseless poll in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, April 13 2007 21:21 Profile Homepage #38 MMORPGs tend to be about killing things. Combat is mostly number crunching and computers handle that beautifully. Plots require people, so that's where tabletop RPGs can shine. Most pencil and paper games have very simple formulas for everything so that you can avoid using a calculator and spend as little time as possible crunching numbers. Computer games can crunch numbers as much as anyone would like. The other big difference is scale: an MMORPG is likely to have hundreds or thousands of players online at a time. An in-person game will have only a few, and it will have the same few every time. That and the plot make for a very different experience. —Alorael, who expects that many people would switch to computer gaming if a strong AI were available to do the calculations and make every player the focus of an interesting story. Even then, though, some people might prefer to play with a set group at a set time for the social aspect. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Crafting & Skills in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, April 13 2007 10:43 Profile Homepage #6 Wandering creatures outdoors will respawn, but nothing else does in Avernum or Geneforge. Exile has constantly restocked dungeons, although even they can eventually run out. —Alorael, who thinks the Blades are fairly self-explanatory. Blades of Exile is almost identical, engine-wise, to Exile 3. Blades of Avernum is mostly like Avernum 3, although the spells were tweaked a bit and a few other changes were made. Jeff has said that Blades is too hard to make and brings in too little money for him to do it again for Geneforge, but he's eaten such words before. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A survey that isn't a poll in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Friday, April 13 2007 08:40 Profile Homepage #37 The sprite is used for imps in Avernum, but that sprite represents a sprite in Nethergate. Definitely. —Alorael, who will never admit to making this post only to cause people to become angry at sprite jokes. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
What's your favorite board game? in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 12 2007 11:18 Profile Homepage #12 Chess is the greatest game, as it involves no randomness. There are many others, and Go is a contender, but I like chess more. (Why is Go capitalized unlike other non-proprietary games?) For recent games, TransAmerica is simple, quick, and fun. Carcassonne requires a little more detailed thought. The winner, though, is Settlers. What's not to like? It has all the backstabbing, deal-making, and feuding you could want, and it's not even a game about war! —Alorael, who will also give recognition to Diplomacy, which he likes more in theory than in practice, and Apples to Apples, which is actually just an excuse to sit around, chat, and be witty. Results of Apples to Apples fortune telling are not guaranteed. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Did I sold Soldberg? Where tje X is X?... in The Avernum Trilogy
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Thursday, April 12 2007 11:04 Profile Homepage #1 X and Solberg will be in the Portal Fortress, not Fort Emergence. —Alorael, who also isn't quite sure what happened with the editor. Preventing the tower boom should either freeze it in its original state or stop the countdown while still letting you fight the demons. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Bored and tired. in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 11 2007 19:09 Profile Homepage #76 quote: Originally written by Infernal Flamming Muffin: You know, I said that I am not the best, I am good enough to beat almost every game you could give me (not old systems). Edit -And I wouldn't beat them right away, it would take me a bit (depending on the game). Angband. Go. —Alorael, who might also recommend Tetris. That's definitely cheating, though. Angband is just mostly cheating. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A survey that isn't a poll in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, April 11 2007 08:02 Profile Homepage #15 1. If Spidweb closed these forums, what would you do? Move on with my life. 2. If you could be any creature from a Spidweb game, what would you be? GIFTS! Sure, I'd be (even more) annoying, but it wouldn't bother me. Vahnatai would be fun too. 3. Who would you like to see as a moderator? The funny thing about Zeviz is that he's not just an ex-mod. He's an ex-admin. He's also refreshingly honest in his support of evil. 4. If you had to change your user name, what would you change it to? I'll let you know a little bit later today. And tomorrow. And the day after that, too. 5. What's your favorite spell? Avatar, Major Blessing, Divine Warrior, Beast Ceremony. See a pattern? 6. What city in the Avernum series would you want to rule? Formello and Lorelei are both beautiful. The latter has too many rocks falling from the sky and former is in a cave. Maybe I'd better go with Vanarium. 7. How old are you? 57/M/Alaska 8. What country would you like to live in besides the one you're in already The UK, Canada, and Australia are all easy choices. They're nice places and I speak the language. Moving to Iceland or Finland would be a little more difficult, but it would allow me to live out my dream of not seeing the sun for days on end. 9. Your favorite Spidweb game is... I'll call it a tie between A2 and Nethergate, and my answer seems to change every time I answer this. 10. Am I annoying? Fifth. —Alorael, who will add that bolding your poll for the responders is the polite thing to do. It saves everyone a few seconds. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00

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