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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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Soda in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, February 21 2007 09:44 Profile Homepage #10 Given a choice between soda and thirst, I'll usually take soda. I drink much more water, and my sweet liquid weakness is fruit juice, especially cranberry. —Alorael, who of course need not specify which beverage makes up the majority of his diet and probably the majority of his biomass. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The Demon of IRL, Part II in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, February 21 2007 09:40 Profile Homepage #11 Provide gatherings of people on foot and I'll be there. Not visibly, maybe, but my presence will be duly noted. —Alorael, who is dubious about ever being able to get to any kind of meeting regardless of how much he wanted to see everyone. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I like it, but... in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, February 21 2007 09:36 Profile Homepage #37 Jeff has made races and traits give bonuses to a few skills that get progressively larger as you gain levels. A few points in the main stats wouldn't be worth a penalty, and increasing bonuses would require too much penalty. —Alorael, who finds your hypothetical too unlikely. It would require Erika to have a different personality, which is within the bounds of speculation but not within the bounds of time travel. Or simple time travel, anyway. You could always go back to her childhood and give her a different life. (See BoE: Chains) Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Cheater! in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Wednesday, February 21 2007 09:32 Profile Homepage #18 Games should be fun. If it's more fun to cheat, go ahead. If it's not, don't. According to this logic, I don't cheat when a game is a fun but manageable challenge on its own. Games that are more frustrating than fun are perfect for cheating if I want to see more of the plot or the mechanics or something like that. Games that just aren't fun or interesting are promptly discarded. I have better things to do with my time. For Spiderweb games I'll use editors to set money to 0 for gold cap evasion and occasionally I use healing, although it's been several games since I needed to. If I completely wrecked skill point allocation I guess I'd cheat to fix my party, but it's hard to do that badly with a Spiderweb game. —Alorael, who is more likely cheat on the first time through a game than on subsequent playthroughs. The more he plays a game, the better he is and the better he knows what he's doing. He therefore finds it less difficult and is less likely to need to lower the challenge. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 19:39 Profile Homepage #60 One "Mr. Bojangles," who is apparently somehow related to Actaeon, used the PDN "Infernal Flaming Muffin" to imitate the real Flamming Muffin. After some brief anger, angst, and confusion, all was made well. —Alorael, who believes it was less pure malice and more humorous malice. It wouldn't be the first time on Spiderweb. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
SpiderWeb Merchandising! in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 19:09 Profile Homepage #18 Thanks for the FYT. That one is rather embarrasing. —Alorael, who has edited out his original post. It didn't need to be said. [ Tuesday, February 20, 2007 19:11: Message edited by: Divine Error ] Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 19:04 Profile Homepage #202 I actually liked having unexplained enemies. A few of them seemed like they needed slightly more justification than they got, but Avernum should be a place full of inexplicable creatures, and not all of them should eventually get any explication. —Alorael, who thinks that works better with animals and shades and such than with humanoids and demons. Anything with intelligence and an obvious ability to communicate should do so enough to make their existence intelligible. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Spiderweb Monthly Stats - February 2007 in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 19:02 Profile Homepage #58 I don't think most people have it in them to be Ed. Spamming and getting Canned or Banned is easy and frequent. Alternating between enraged bouts of calling people vegetables and pleading for mercy takes a special kind of person. —Alorael, who thinks the Fake Muffin incident had none of the hallmarks of an Ed. If it were Ed, he would have called you a silly artichoke, apologized profusely, and begged for another chance. Then he would have done it all over again. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I like it, but... in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 12:18 Profile Homepage #35 If Erika were not cursed, she wouldn't be in Avernum very long. She is not the sort who would patiently stay in self-imposed exile to preserve the timeline. She'd be going at Garzahd and Hawthorne with everything she had, and she'd have a fair chance at winning. —Alorael, who thinks a time-traveling Avernite could more reasonably convince Erika not to battle with Rentar-Ihrno. Events in A4 would proceed differently, but they wouldn't be unrecognizable. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Geneforge Political Spectrum in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 12:14 Profile Homepage #50 It's not the Trakovites' lack of power that makes them an ineffective faction. It's their insistence on the inherent evil of shaping. Shaping has done too much good as is just too potentially useful to be abandoned because it can be a weapon. Murdering all shapers doesn't make Trakovites any more endearing. The Rebellion has its heart in the right place and its effects in all the wrong places. While I don't agree with hard-liner Shaper policies, I think the Shapers are the group with the level of organization and discipline that would allow them to change their position to one that handles shaping fairly and responsibly. Eventually they could be brought around to creations' rights without scorched earth warfare to accomplish it. —Alorael, who thinks the world of Geneforge really just needs a Shaper with the right ideas and the brains to keep his mouth shut on them until he has enough power to start swaying other Shapers to his point of view. Change from within would be much more efficient and much less bloody. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
SpiderWeb Merchandising! in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 12:08 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by The Sorcerer: Amazingly many people have a below-average (or non-existant) grasp of English here. I'm told this is different in the Netherlands. And how many Americans speak a second language with any degree of fluency? I'd bring up other English speakers, but I don't know if the same is true in other countries as well. —Alorael, who also doesn't know if it's due to flaws in the American education system or if the unfortunate international hegemony of the English language gives assymetric incentive to pick up English as a second language. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Avernum 5 Early, Early Notes in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 12:04 Profile Homepage #197 Just a minor point, but what exactly is an "epic" battle? Epic has become a term of general overuse without any specific meaning anymore. I, for one, consider the small band of heroes triumphing over the endless insectile hordes fairly epic. Do you want more battles against fewer but more powerful enemies, or plot-related battles, or what? —Alorael, who can't say he really enjoyed the chitrachs. That was mostly because they chew through any party that isn't painfully optimized by the time they reach the Eastern Gallery and the way they parry and riposte so much that combat is a headache. The concept of fighting a huge swarm of fairly minor but relentless enemies worked just fine. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Why You Suck in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Tuesday, February 20 2007 11:52 Profile Homepage #18 Every community has some degree of fascination with and conversation about itself. That's normal. In jokes are the same: they're what happens when people spend time together, be it virtually or in person. Spiderweb may have more in-jokes than you'd like, and they may seem especially inane, but I don't think it's unusual. As far as excessive navel-gazing recently, it sounds right to me, but memory is a funny thing. Doing a study would demonstrate its truth or falsehood nicely, but I don't see what purpose it would serve. Meta-posts are a fad like everything else on Spiderweb, and it will come to an end whenever interest or tolerance wanes. —Alorael, who lumps this into the old complaint on signal to noise ratio. Right now there's not much interesting signal, so attention that might otherwise be directed elsewhere goes to the noise. It's not especially pleasant noise, silence isn't necessarily better. If you want interesting topics, start some. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 19:50 Profile Homepage #175 The next person to take an unwarranted superior tone with Iffy will regret it. Derailment takes two. Iffy, the less you talk about being new the less people will think about it. Post when you have something important to say. Don't post when you've got nothing to add. Before long you'll be receiving the same insults as everyone else. —Alorael, who would rather not hear about Muffins of any sort for the next few days. It's nothing personal, but when people become the subject of most Spiderweb discussion it's either the aftermath of a bad thing or the prelude to it. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 17:18 Profile Homepage #157 We're done here too. This is not open season on Flamming Muffin. Be nice so I don't have to lock this thread too. —Alorael, who would make further comments if he had humorous additions or suggestions. He doesn't have any at this time. Maybe later. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I like it, but... in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 17:11 Profile Homepage #30 Do you? What for? I've never not killed them, but I think I remember someone saying it changed the ending and it makes sense to me. —Alorael, who doesn't even remember getting any especially useful reward for killing the Shades, which was only fair since they weren't terribly difficult by that point in the game. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Infernal Flamming Muffin is an Oldbie? in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 17:07 Profile Homepage #48 You know, I actually do think we're done here. Nothing productive will be said past this point, and we're sinking into insults. I apologize for my part in this burgeoning mess, and I declare it to be ended. —Alorael, who encourages this topic to die the preemptive death. It can go on to a better place, too. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Things to improve Dikiyoba's ausome story! in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 17:04 Profile Homepage #154 Spiderweb is notoriously picky about spelling and syntax, but really, run that last post through spell check. Irony is Spiderweb's favorite form of funny. —Alorael, who doubts that anyone is qualified to judge himself on whether or not he is a newbie (or noob). It takes a while for most people to settle into any forum, and a while is more than a week or two. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
The Ancient Greeks in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 16:55 Profile Homepage #70 That's pretty close to a Spiderweb first, and I'm impressed. Not only did Kyrek stand his ground, he also knows how to concede gracefully. There's a lesson in here for all of us next time Geneforge and politics come up. —Alorael, who thinks this was a remarkably good argument with remarkably little anger on either side. Of course it's about something with absolutely no importance or relevance to daily life, but still! Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Infernal Flamming Muffin is an Oldbie? in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 16:33 Profile Homepage #22 I caught on. Once again, for anyone who happens to have missed edits, impersonation is a CoC violation and so is spamming. The former warning applies to Flaming and the latter to Flamming. —Alorael, who guesses that one line posts are not, in fact, the problem. Maybe he should suggest a target of five or more sentences. Five or more sentences, at least two of which must contain more than a single clause? Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I like it, but... in Avernum 4
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 16:31 Profile Homepage #28 It has one ending with a few minor variations in the text depending on what you've done with Rentar-Ihrno, the Darkside Loyalists, the Shades, and maybe a few other problems. It's not very Geneforge-esque —Alorael, who also thinks that getting different endings depending on choices made literally in the last five minutes of the game hardly makes them distinct endings. Reload and see what else you could have done. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Charged creations made viable in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 16:25 Profile Homepage #2 Retlaw has a point. If charged creations could be made in combat and acted as friendly NPCs rather than party members they would be far more useful than they are now. —Alorael, who also thinks it would help with the horde shaper style. It's nice to be accompanied by a half dozen creations, but it would be even nicer to be able to make a dozen more during especially tough fights. It probably wouldn't be balanced at all, but it would be nice. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Infernal Flamming Muffin is an Oldbie? in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 16:22 Profile Homepage #13 [Edit: Mysetery solved. Challenge unaltered.] Recent events have inspired me to propose a challenge. Iffy, make posts of two lines or more and you will not only win accolades from all (or most of) Spiderweb but also take that important first step on the road to oldbishness. —Alorael, who also feels that it's worth pointing out that it's an important step on the road to not being Canned. Canning, for the record, is an official notice of too many content-free posts. It is a bad thing. [ Monday, February 19, 2007 16:29: Message edited by: Being of Alo ] Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Infernal Flamming Muffin is an Oldbie? in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 16:17 Profile Homepage #8 Impersonating another member is a Code of Conduct violation. Stop. —Alorael, who now has some posts to edit. That extra M in Flamming turns out to be useful after all. [ Monday, February 19, 2007 16:28: Message edited by: Being of Alo ] Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Oldbiehood -- Analysis in General
Or else o'erleap. Law Bringer Member # 335	written Monday, February 19 2007 13:18 Profile Homepage #52 That is not dead which can eternal lie... —Alorael, who is pretty sure that most of the Spiderweb cults lie incessantly. It may not be quite eternal, but it's close enough. Posts: 14579 \| Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00

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