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Bots? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 25 2007 20:45 Profile Homepage #20
Iffy joined and spammed a bit. Ed was known for spam. Ed was immediately brought up several times. Iffy asked about this Ed he was hearing so much about. Iffy was immediately accused of being Ed despite having only superficial similarities.

Does this seem a little bit hostile to anyone else?

—Alorael, who personally thinks Tullegolar is much more likely to be Ed. After all, nobody likes Tully, so he must be a spammer and a lunatic as well.
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Royal seal A1 in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 25 2007 13:24 Profile Homepage #1
You can get it in the Shattered Fort, better known as Akhronath, which is past some lava in the far south of Avernum. It's in the large cave west of the Tower of Magi and east of Almaria. You'll need to heal Hathwisa for Patrick and get a certain key from the Castle before you can get the seal.

—Alorael, who thinks that just about covers everything except exactly how to go about the various tasks involved.
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For A5 - Keep it fresh for tanks! in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 25 2007 13:17 Profile Homepage #17
I changed my PDN to Skribbane Addict for a few hours years before my daily name changes. It made people upset, and those people included me, so I changed it back promptly.

—Alorael, who would look up accounts named Skribbane Addict if the Endeavor were available. It is not, and Google reveals nothing interesting on the subject.

[ Sunday, February 25, 2007 13:19: Message edited by: Endemos ]
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The Fens in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 25 2007 13:13 Profile Homepage #4
You can eventually stop the stream of enemies, but doing so requires going through the stream of enemies, so it's still annoying. I thought it was entirely appropriate and well executed, but it's supposed to be annoying and it is.

—Alorael, who knows you don't actually have to wade through all those creations. If you're doing it, though, you're probably doing it because you're not the quick and clever sort who's going to make it through the other entrance.
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For A5 - Keep it fresh for tanks! in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 25 2007 11:40 Profile Homepage #15
quote:
Originally written by Cryptozoology:

quote:
Originally written by Shadestorm:

Off topic: How many accounts does Alorael have, anyway?
Only one that we know of (well, he has a secondary account, but never uses it). You'll notice that his member number doesn't change; only his name does.
This secondary account is news to me.

—Alorael, who does not admit to being Aran, being created by Aran, or having created Aran. Or SMoE, for that matter. He'll just continue dropping hints, thank you very much.
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Creations in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 25 2007 11:23 Profile Homepage #7
That would actually just come out to 2/3 your total number of points in shaping, and it would slightly reward spreading out skill points rather than putting them all in one skill. It wouldn't make much difference, really.

—Alorael, wh did not find the limit especially restrictive, as Thuryl has pointed out. Better creations are more useful than more creations. Still, that thahd horde is so tempting...
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Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, February 25 2007 11:10 Profile Homepage #181
Stupid, evil, and mean are entirely different. Spiderweb's constituents are decidedly not stupid, show a remarkable tendency towards evil, and are very good at being kind and gentle in italics.

—Alorael, who also thinks that there are plenty of forums that thrive on stupidity, evil, and meanness. He could give examples, but they would all be missing the larger picture of what the internet is all about: stupidity, evil, and meanness.
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Favourite games music in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 24 2007 22:55 Profile Homepage #3
The same guy also did the music for Total Annihilation. I've never played the game, but I'm highly impressed by the score.

—Alorael, who has of course turned to Wikipedia in his hour of need. Jeremy Soule turns out to be a busy man in the world of game music.
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Creations in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 24 2007 22:50 Profile Homepage #4
It would actually be fun to be able to have more than seven creations at a time, but I think it would throw endgame balance way out of whack. Shaping would just be a matter of getting enough essence to throw an endless stream of gazers, drayks, drakons, and wingbolts at every problem.

—Alorael, who happens to think the end of the game would be incredibly difficult but also hilarious with several hundred essence spent on a very, very large army of thahds.
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Bots? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 24 2007 22:47 Profile Homepage #8
Bots include more sophisticated programs that mimic a person's online presence. Aran is known for producing bots that perform a wide variety of tasks.

—Alorael, who is among those bots, maybe. Or maybe not. And Aran is maybe (or maybe not) a bot too.
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For A5 - Keep it fresh for tanks! in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 24 2007 22:46 Profile Homepage #10
Changing melee attacks would require a whole lot of balance work unless they were very simple changes, and the AI would need more work if they either needed to use these new attacks or respond reasonaby to their existence.

—Alorael, who doesn't think it's impossible. It's just unlikely until Jeff starts working on a very new engine. Maybe Nethergate 2.0? The engine still hasn't been specified.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Dillame in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, February 24 2007 22:40 Profile Homepage #8
You could also just start taking things that aren't yours until they attack you. Then claim they started it.

—Alorael, who wonders if the game responds reasonably if you kill Alwan as soon as you reach Dillame, probably by cheating incessantly. Rebels in the safehouse should probably give you a pat on the back at the very least.
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About Ed... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 23:55 Profile Homepage #17
There's something telling in the fact that Upon Mars is so disliked. His only crime is illegibility, really, and if you can make it through his posts there's actually some interesting stuff in there.

—Alorael, who doesn't see why every undesirable newbie must be likened to Ed. Ed was unique (hopefully!) and his problems were not limited to large volume of low-content posts or typographical problems.
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Why You Suck in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 23:45 Profile Homepage #152
Synergy, you profess to be above it all but you keep swinging in the verbal melees. Be the better person and stop posting when you're obviously just fanning the flames.

Thuryl, we know you enjoy a good game of intellectual abuse. There's no need to rub someone's face in it.

Kel, drop arguments when they need to be dropped. Plausible deniability doesn't mean you're not doing your part to keep the exciting Synergy-kicking contest going.

All of you, If you are going to variously insult and ignore each other, please do it elsewhere. There are three other forums in which you can engage in this discourse and IM has already been brought up several times.

Don't do it again. This conversation is over.

—Alorael, who is once again very disappointed that three otherwise (mostly) rational members of Spiderweb can't get along civilly no matter how unreal their relationship may be.
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I like it, but... in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 23:39 Profile Homepage #46
The vahnatai are good at everything, which is why they wouldn't make very good characters.

—Alorael, who at least thinks it makes sense in a system in which humans are the worst race and all other races just add bonuses with no penalty but experience. There's no reasonable way to penalize vahnatai down to human equivalence.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The Ancient Greeks in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 12:28 Profile Homepage #87
quote:
Originally written by upon mars:
But could it be that life even on a short period contradicts it's own laws?
No, or they wouldn't be laws.

quote:
Could we be just wrong?
Of course we could be. There's no indication that we are, though, or we'd be digging at those laws harder.

quote:
Or is it just random events in a random event of time?
I don't know what you mean, but it sounds very profound.

Saunders: Inheritance of health is a complicated thing. Some of it is genetic, some of it is memetic, some of it is environment in utero, and some of it is dumb bloody luck. Education is most definitely an acquired characteristic, but drive to become educated is inherited meme and possibly partly genes. Wealth is inherited, but by that reasoning so is living on Earth.

[Edit: Taag!]

—Alorael, who responds seriously to less than serious posts because humor is a serious business. It's especially serious when it has tentacles in it.

[ Friday, February 23, 2007 23:58: Message edited by: Thromping Boy ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The Ancient Greeks in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 10:48 Profile Homepage #84
Cavemen may have been good enough engineers to make Stonhenege, but they didn't actually make anything useful. I'd say they were still in the beta-testing stage of intelligence. Or maybe they were so strong they could just easily put the stones into place.

I think you don't quite understand Lamarckian and Darwinian evolution. Organisms' doing as much as possible to survive is fairly central to Darwin's theory and implied in Lamarck's. The difference is that acquired adaptations (muscles from exercise, knowledge gained from experience, and so on) aren't heritable because they aren't genetic. That's directly against what Lamarck said, and Darwin was actually a proponent of inheritance of acquired characteristics as well. His theory just stressed selective pressures rather than the means of inheritance so that it's much more compatible with genetics.

So yes, evolution consists of random mutations that add diversity, which is then acted upon by selective forces to alter the population to adapt to its circumstances. That's a combination of Darwin's natural selection and modern genetics. The problem is the speed of adaptation: the Spartans only stayed at their peak for a few centuries. The Spartans may not have had individuals born with obvious congenital defects, but that's not enough to suddenly select for strength.

Again, the evidence is in history: Sparta was powerful, but it was not the undisputedly most powerful Greek city-state, and it eventually lost its power entirely. Warlike cultures tend to produce better warriors, but that's largely cultural and not genetic. When strength and martial prowess are valued they're more likely to be developed by individuals, but that has no effect on population genetics unless it goes on for thousands or millions of years.

—Alorael, who concludes that evolution isn't always very intuitive. Lamarck makes a lot of sense despite being very solidly discredited.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Exile II Music? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 10:27 Profile Homepage #18
Who has stated a dislike of the A1 and A2 intros? I'm indifferent to A1's, but I think A2's is my second favorite after Nethergate's.

—Alorael, who thinks it goes especially well with Dark Waters. And now he detects a trend in his A2 appreciation and possibly a reason that he's willing to forgive ZKR many of its flaws.
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What is it with binoculars and politicians? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 10:22 Profile Homepage #11
Actually, I think there's a reason these politicians are out of touch with reality so often. I'm sure some kind aide has painted the insides of those lens covers with a helpful picture. Something like this:

IMAGE(http://www.schwimmerlegal.com/smiley.jpg)

—Alorael, who also wouldn't be surprised if there were two sets of binoculars, one with rose-tinted lenses and one with lenses tinted with whatever shade denotes paranoid nationalism.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 10:12 Profile Homepage #206
Actually, that article has been brought up not once but twice.

[Edit: Tags need to be properly] formatted

—Alorael, who didn't get the sense that Jeff will be changing anything in A5. He just thinks that Jeff wouldn't necessarily want to play A5 if it were made by someone else. On the other hand, he has also enjoyed the Spiderweb stat setup and doesn't have any objections to killing more goblins/bandits/nephilim/sliths/plagues/vahnatai to gain more levels to be more awesome.

[ Friday, February 23, 2007 10:13: Message edited by: Lolling About ]
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Find Terella Venia !! in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 10:03 Profile Homepage #3
Since you seem to remember, is the small pit with Terella's body also where you eventuall end up after fighting Nociduas?

—Alorael, who definitely remembers coming out somewhere and thinking, "Oh, so that's what this hole is for!" He just can't remember if it's also the Terella hole.
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Soda in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, February 23 2007 10:01 Profile Homepage #39
Diet sodas have a history of switching from artificial sweetener to artificial sweetener as each one is labeled as a carcinogen, and there are some worries about benzene contamination in soft drinks. Actually, there are all kinds of health risks to drinking soda. Carbonation is not, to the best of my knowledge, one of them.

—Alorael, who turned to Wikipedia and discovered that the greatest risks of carbonated beverages are explosion and embarassment from the expulsion of gases. There are worse fates to suffer than humiliation.
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Find Terella Venia !! in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 22 2007 23:50 Profile Homepage #1
It's been a while, but I think you find her in a hole west of Grindstone and south of Fort Monastery. Alternately, you'll probably find her a bit later after dealing with a particularly difficult necromancer.

—Alorael, who can't even remember how to get to Nociduas anymore. His memory is definitely suffering.
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Why You Suck in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 22 2007 19:36 Profile Homepage #101
I'm sorry I annoyed you, Kel. I haven't particularly noticed anything wrong with how either one of you has been debating, but in several discussions now it's come down to Synergy complaining that you're not responding properly and your assertions that you have been. Regardless of fault, I'd rather see two intelligent people disagree on contents rather than on technicalities.

—Alorael, who knows it's more than a technicality when it's a straw man setup. He also knows that he's now probably throwing fuel on the fire, so please disregard him.
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The first to figure it out gets a cookie! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, February 22 2007 19:28 Profile Homepage #19
You can get away with celebrations better if you are respected, well-liked, or an oddball. Alex fortuitously combines all three elements.

—Alorael, who can conceive of a few post celebration topics of genuine instance. If you come upon, say, an odd perfect number, it would be worthwhile to remark upon it. Such post counts are unlikely in the extreme, but you never know!
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