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The U.S. and Iraq in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 19 2007 22:50 Profile Homepage #36
quote:
Originally written by Nemesis.:

quote:
Originally written by radix malorum est cupiditas:

Oh, and yes, I do plan on eating Christian blood with great relish in the coming Passover holiday.
Ahem. Do you mind? Really? I mean come on. :rolleyes:
Well, the babies just aren't appetizing at all if the relish is no good.

—Alorael, who will have you know that the Torah is very specific about which babies are kosher for Passover. They can't have been born too long ago or they've got too much yeast in them. You have to get them fresh!
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Quick Avernum 5 Update, March '07 in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 19 2007 17:36 Profile Homepage #17
I am filled with glee!

—Alorael, who would be disappointed if Rentar didn't play at least a moderately important background role in A5 even though she's dead. She has, after all, been more or less central to three out of four prior Avernum games. Actually, it was jarring to have Erika's absence be so unimportant in A5.
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Helphelphelphelp. Please? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 19 2007 17:33 Profile Homepage #3
It would help if there were any conceivable reason to go there. Polaris, Desperance, and Shadow Vale have the satellite niches pretty well covered. I just can't imagine why I'd ever want to go to a new board that's in a long line of new boards that went nowhere.

—Alorael, who must be getting old. There was a time when he could be enthusiastic about five boards and two secret conspiracies at once. Now he'd rather just sit in his rocking chair and reminisce.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A3 reloading during a fight in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, March 19 2007 09:00 Profile Homepage #12
Yes, this sounds like a good time to try deleting and reinstalling the game.

—Alorael, who does have to offer congratulations for causing the game to go impressively wrong.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Unbound a little small? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, March 18 2007 21:43 Profile Homepage #12
I took that one to be a humorous twist on "long live the monarch" because Ghaldring is so all-powerful and such that he's like a title. Actually, Monarch is the one who's like a title, or at least like a monarch.

—Alorael, who acknowledges that he should know enough French to realize that "las" isn't one of its articles. Suya culpa.
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Survey this way! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, March 18 2007 20:04 Profile Homepage #47
quote:
Originally written by Infernal Flamming Muffin:

These posts are so long that I don't have the patience to read them all.
No offence.
You aren't obligated to read every post, but if you're not going to read the thread or even contribute meaningfully then you owe it to everyone else not to comment at all.

—Alorael, who thinks any entirely self-reflective post is highly likely to be spam. Yes, he's aware that his posts tend towards self-reflection. Yes, he's aware that his signatures magnify these tendencies.
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Unbound a little small? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, March 18 2007 17:41 Profile Homepage #9
I know no French at all, but I'm pretty sure you need to conjugate differently and use a plural article for Takers.

Vivent las Takers?

—Alorael, who realizes this is very tangential. He's not sorry. Language is important.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
A3 reloading during a fight in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, March 18 2007 17:34 Profile Homepage #5
Apple-O on a Mac or (I think) control-O on a PC doesn't do it? It's probably a bug.

—Alorael, who can't imagine that it's an old copy problem. Even the oldest version of A3 should have the same loading capabilities as A1 and A2.
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Spiderweb Game of the Year and... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, March 18 2007 17:31 Profile Homepage #12
Every Spiderweb game could have been improved. A4 is the one that needs it the most, though.

Well, that and the non-Subterra third-party games, but they're mostly lost causes. Lost Souls at least had potential.

—Alorael, who doesn't think Blades even belongs in polls like this. Scenario editors and playing others' scenarios is too different from one man's game efforts. (By that logic Subterra shouldn't be there either, but you can't have everything.)
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Controvers-A-Poll in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 19:31 Profile Homepage #8
How about Hispanic? Yes, I know it's not a race anymore, but it's still pretty important.

—Alorael, who is not a Lebanese Baha'i vlish. That's all he's saying.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Game music -the poll in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 19:28 Profile Homepage #12
Nethergate's is the best. A2's is the second best. A3's has always bothered me for some reason, and A4's doesn't match the game and gets old very, very quickly.

—Alorael, who has recently had reason to notice that the A4 intro should never be looped.
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If you could be any creation... in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 19:23 Profile Homepage #14
Servile. I'm rather fond of opposable thumbs.

—Alorael, who actually gets the feeling that drakons and possibly drayks have thumbs too. It's hard to run a lab without hands, and after all this self-shaping they'd probably get around to improved digits eventually.
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What people would you like to be? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 19:17 Profile Homepage #13
Shapers get power, wealth, respect, and creature comforts. Rebels get mud, hate, and killed by Shapers. I'll take the former, thanks.

—Alorael, who would really prefer to be a Shaper far away from the rebellion. Actually, being a rebel far away from the rebellion wouldn't be so bad either, although he'd feel slightly hypocritical.
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The U.S. and Iraq in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:34 Profile Homepage #5
I'd say you're preaching to the choir by posting that on Spiderweb, but most of Spiderweb would be offended by having serious politics linked to religion.

—Alorael, who isn't sure he believes in a right to delcare oneself "non-American." Being proud of your country because it's your country is foolish, but refusing to take responsibility for your country is equally foolish. Citizenship is an obligation to fix the corruption. Ask not what your country can do for you and all that.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Rentar-Ihrno in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:26 Profile Homepage #35
The end of A3 is easy. Rentar's keep is right under Blackcrag and when she blasts a hole to the surface to expose Erika to sunlight the unknown mage in Prazac's employ doesn't even have to do anything fancy. He's got a perfectly good line of sight to the heroic quartet that needs teleportation and their destination in the throneroom!

—Alorael, who will conveniently ignore the fact that the same teleportation occurs if you don't have Erika's help and there is therefore no such hole to the surface. If you really want to find flaws in his brilliant hypothesis you'll have to look elsewhere.
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Really anticipated ideas for A5?? in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:23 Profile Homepage #71
The point of the idea is to make a real penalty for choosing non-human characters. Getting around the penalty defeats the pupose completely.

Vahnatai don't seem to wear armor, but they're also clearly not frail. They are, in fact, some of the toughest fighters in Avernum. Why couldn't they wear armor? Mass might be a problem, but the vahnatai can probably come up with some magical light-weight crystal armor that's better than anything humans use and fifty times as expensive.

—Alorael, who isn't even sure that sliths should be considered generally unclothed and unarmored. The sprites are all naked, but one of the PC pictures has a slith in clothes and it just doesn't seem reasonable for sliths to be dangerous fighters if they have no armor and no other way of not getting stabbed frequently.
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Polls? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 11:17 Profile Homepage #7
Just because you can make a poll does not mean you should make a poll. Actually, that goes for most kinds of posting, but polls most of all.

—Alorael, who has had several ideas for new threads to start and even a genuinely marginally interesting poll. Then he realizes that he'd be destroying his carefully cultivated image as one who starts no threads and refrains. Inertia is a terrible thing.
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Nethergate: Resurrection in Nethergate
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, March 17 2007 07:10 Profile Homepage #54
The old theme currently looks like it's in. And so does another old theme.

—Alorael, who honestly would rather not get new music when the old Nethergate music is so perfect. The only improvement he'd want is a full-length version.
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Rentar-Ihrno in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, March 16 2007 21:40 Profile Homepage #27
You can't always count on end-of-game deus ex machina wizardry, though.

—Alorael, who is always confused by teleportation in Avernum. Sometimes it seems trivial. Sometimes nobody can teleport out of Avernum without going to inordinate lengths to collect gadgets and locations and such. Is there an anti-teleportation barrier twenty feet below sea level?
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Song from exile One in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, March 16 2007 21:33 Profile Homepage #2
It's the Little Fugue in G Minor. It's by Bach and you can find much better renditions of it online. Even legally!

—Alorael, who approves of any game that uses Bach as its soundtrack. That really includes most games without music, though, thanks to the miracle of iTunes.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
[Insert Dumb Joke Here] in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, March 16 2007 09:19 Profile Homepage #101
The muffins have screed? Actually, that explicates many of your posts for me.

—Alorael, who believes that more scintillating wit and cutting yet slyly understated remarks would go a long way towards taking the scree out of muffins.
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28th of March is Spambot Birthday in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, March 16 2007 09:10 Profile Homepage #2
I was going to suggest March 28, but you probably know when the EndeavorBot was first put online. It really does have a birthday!

—Alorael, who will have a present for Spam Day. It will not be a cake and there will not be flavoring.
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Geneforge 5: Improvements, Innovations etc in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, March 16 2007 09:06 Profile Homepage #39
Battle creations have the inertia of four games behind them now, so I don't think the core creations will be getting any overhauls. They do need some way to become the equals of the other two types, though. I'm sure Jeff will work on it in G5.

Unstable creations were an experiment. Unless Jeff is really fond of them I doubt they'll return.

—Alorael, who very much likes the idea of support creations. Healing is probably unbalanced because creations lack essence, but trading in part of your essence pool to have an improved way to bless, haste or otherwise improve your party would be an interesting mechanic. The balancing would be tricky, but if it worked it would be fun.
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Rentar-Ihrno in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, March 15 2007 20:57 Profile Homepage #25
We don't know Kelner is a powerful wizard, but we also don't know that he isn't. He's clearly not terribly ambitious, but there could be an archmage lurking under the paperwork. Avernum needs a few who aren't magically maintained semi-senile corpses.

—Alorael, who noticed that Rone has actually been improving over the course of the series. In A1 he was barely functional. In A2 he was at least clearly conscious. In A4 he's literally got a new lease on life and he makes sense for the first time in decades.
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Geneforge 5: Improvements, Innovations etc in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, March 15 2007 18:32 Profile Homepage #36
As Thuryl said, getting the goodies by using canisters sparingly just seems wrong. You should either have to avoid canisters entirely or just go for them all.

Having delayed canister effects would just encourage going online for spoilers, but having canisters give abilities in order is a fairly good idea. I haven't really noticed any specifically placed canisters abilities anyway.

—Alorael, who could even see a mix. You'll always find a Strength canister in one place, but it's next to two other canisters that give whatever abilities come next in your progression.
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