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| Displayed name | Or else o'erleap. |
| Member number | 335 |
| Title | Law Bringer |
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| Homepage | http://www.polarisboard.net |
| Registered | Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Monday, February 19 2007 13:16
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Growing out of noobishness isn't something that just happens. It's something that you have to work towards. —Alorael, who also thinks this would be a good time to reiterate the difference between noob and newbie. The latter is someone relatively recently arrived. The former is, well, an insult. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 13:11
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I'd be disappointed if the vahnatai didn't talk about her, but it should be abundantly clear to them that she was insane, proceeded insanely, and caused nothing but harm to humans and vahnatai. —Alorael, who can follow Rentar's reasoning up to the point where the Empire committed heinous crimes and had to pay. Trying to destroy the Empire entirely would be crazy. Targeting insignificant Valorim is even crazier. Then ignoring the Empire to get revenge on Avernum for getting in the way? The only thing that makes it even slightly reasonable is the way the vahnatai sectioned up Avernum with barriers in A2. Maybe they just don't know how to extract vengeance very well. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Percieved Sympothies in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 13:07
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I'm not so sure Jeff has a side, or that it hasn't changed. I agree that he portrays the Shapesr and Rebels largely as equally evil, but the Trakovites struck me as hopeless idealists and borderline political nutjobs. They are, in a way, arch-conservatives. They want to turn back time, and that's not possible. —Alorael, who thinks Jeff sympathizes with creation rights, limited shaping, and probably no self-shaping. That faction doesn't exist, and with good reason. Rational or moderate sects have no place in Geneforge. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| The Ancient Greeks in General | |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 13:02
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If the Greeks couldn't spend as much time training, by which I assume you mean exercising and practicing form, then why would they be better at it than modern athletes? If exercise makes muscles better but not stronger, I don't know what you mean. If you mean it makes them stronger, I agree, but you've already said that modern athletes get more chances to build up muscle. Not all Greeks were soldiers and athletes. Most weren't. And I still don't see how that's relevant, because there seems to be no disagreement that the average Greek was more fit than the average Spidwebber. The average athlete, modern or ancient, is a different story. —Alorael, who thinks superhuman strength is exactly what you are concluding. If they have strength that is no longer humanly possible, their strength was superhuman from a modern perspective. That still makes no sense. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Geneforge Political Spectrum in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 09:32
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It's very hard to cripple a character if you put any thought into your stats at all. You know, don't raise melee if you're a mage and baton user, don't raise your Battle Shaping so you can make better drayks, that sort of thing. The extreme stat wringing we do hear is because we like that sort of thing. There are no wrong faction choices. You'll get slightly different rewards, talk to some different people, go to some different places, and get a different ending depending on where you throw your support, but that should just be based on what you think is best or what you think is most interesting. —Alorael, who supports the Shapers because the Trakovites are idealists who have no way to actually put their beliefs into practice and the Rebels are dangerous lunatics who aren't capable of producing a responsible and stable state. The Shapers aren't great, but they're not too bad when they're not being forced to use scorched earth tactics. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 09:27
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Consolidation! Please direct all comments here. Or not, at your discretion. —Alorael, who has nothing to add. Not even a funny image. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Nethergate... in General | |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 08:43
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To be fair, that "here" is all of Spiderweb, not just General. —Alorael, who can see how a thread titled "Nethergate" might belong with the rest of Nethergate. On the other hand, everyone needs to be made aware of the existence of Nethergate as often as possible and General gets more eyeballs. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 08:37
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I'd buy and wear shirts with Alex cartoons. Spiderweb doesn't have anything else that's immediately recognizable but its logo, and wearing a boring logo is, well, boring. —Alorael, who would be overjoyed to have a shirt entirely covered with all the stick figure antics that fit. He would then be not safe for work, of course. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 08:33
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[Spoilers], obviously . . . . At the end of A4 you can choose from three options after you defeat Rentar-Ihrno. You can kill her, send her back to the non-rogue vahnatai so they can apply their own sense of justice, or let her flee with a promise to inflict pain and suffering on the Empire instead of Avernum. . . . . [/Spoilers] [Edit: Tagged out[/t]] —Alorale, who wishes the UBB had a decent spoilers tag. He also could live with everyone expecting to see spoilers in every thread, since that's more or less how Spiderweb operates. [ Monday, February 19, 2007 08:38: Message edited by: Being of Alo ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Why isn't there a strong magic/medium shaping/weak weapon class? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Monday, February 19 2007 08:29
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It's as unlikely in G5 unless there's a big engine or paradigm shift. I'm also not sure what you mean by a pure mage. No class is a pure anything, and the lifecrafter certainly comes closest to the stand back and throw magic and/or other people at it approach. —Alorael, who actually thinks a strong magic and weak everything else pure mage class would be reasonably balanced. It would be slightly tougher in places, and the infiltrator is of course superior in all ways, but it wouldn't be as hard as a weapons- or shaping-only class. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 18 2007 21:41
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Only one, and I hardly think it counts since we know each other independently of Spiderweb. I came probably within 20 feet of another Spidwebber but didn't get a chance to talk. —Alorael, who did see someone who looked so much like Aran that he had to say hi to verify that it was not in fact the bot made flesh. A Southern drawl coming from what was apparently Aran's mouth seemed very, very strange. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 18 2007 19:32
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Untrue, thanks to Spiderweb's policy of staffing admin and mod positions with heartless evildoers. Tully should be proud of us, really. —Alorael, who likes arbitrarily banning people. It's even better when he can do it and largely be cheered on for his efforts. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Recommend a new (to me) game in General | |
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written Sunday, February 18 2007 16:26
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Fallout resembles Diablo only in that you have a character who may spend a fair amount of time killing things. In other words, it's an RPG. It's still fantastic, though. Although it doesn't really fit in with anything mentioned already, Cave Story is a wonderful whatever it is. Adventure-platformer with a plot? —Alorael, who has no idea why he likes Cave Story. It has none of the elements that he usually enjoys in a game and several that he usually doesn't, but he still thinks it's a lot of fun. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 18 2007 13:14
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I think this is as good a place as any to point out that you are not obligated to reply to every single post made in a thread you started. In fact, it's a good idea not to unless you really have that much useful stuff to say. —Alorael, who needs to start worrying. Why, Randomizer and Thuryl will catch up to him in only a matter of years at this rate! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Sunday, February 18 2007 11:31
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Letting Rentar live requires some choices much earlier in the game that you can easily miss if you choose a belligerent tone with her. I don't follow the link between the Empire War and the return to the surface. Reconciliation between the Empire and Avernum followed diplomacy and spying launched from Fort Emergence. That was largely unrelated to the Empire's actions and mostly based on the fact that Avernites wanted out of the caves. Yes, stopping the plagues gave Avernum a diplomatic edge and the plagues were caused by vahnatai, who were in turn motivated by the Empire's kidnappings, which wouldn't have happened if Erika hadn't sparked the war. On the other hand, Prazac was a notably receptive Empress. Without Erika Hawthorne or Garzahd might still hold all the power, and they weren't the negotiating sort. —Alorael, who still thinks Erika wasn't exactly a popular person. Maybe assassinating Hawthorne was a good idea, but Erika did that and everything else alone. She was too much of a reclusive loose cannon for anyone powerful in Avernum or on the surface to be comfortable with her. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| The Ancient Greeks in General | |
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written Sunday, February 18 2007 11:22
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I don't think war is a very good selective pressure for muscle. It helps, but in the case of the Greeks was intermittent, affected only men, and also selects for, say, resistance to disease and ability to stay away from the front lines. And again, I want to know what happened to all those martial muscularity genes if they're not around in the strongest athletes today. —Alorael, who thinks that the average Greek was probably less indolent and also quite probably less healthy than the average first-worlder today. More labor builds muscle, but more labor in bad conditions on a sparse diet isn't good for you. Still, it's at least plausible that the trireme-rowers were all well-fed men who fully bought into the Greek culture of athletics and spent every spare moment perfecting their rowishness. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Why isn't there a strong magic/medium shaping/weak weapon class? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Saturday, February 17 2007 22:25
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The infiltrator is a good class even with weak shaping when you put no points into weapons skill. While magic/shaping/weapons would be fun, it would make all class optimization discussions largely useless because of its ability to steamroll through all opposition. —Alorael, realized that the sixth class was what he wanted while playing his lifecrafter in the very first beta. Jeff said no, and his decision made sense more and more later in the game. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Because I Can: The Masochist's Guide To G4 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Saturday, February 17 2007 22:14
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Your character cannot cast spells, attack, or use items. You may make one and only one creation, and it must be a fyora made as soon as possible in the beginning. If it dies, you reload. Have fun by a very different definition from mine! —Alorael, who otherwise thinks that a melee-only, non-canister lifecrafter would be a suitably agonizing challenge. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 17 2007 13:44
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I prefer to think that he's gone into seclusion to finish a scenario. Any scenario. [Edit: Virtual comma splice!] —Alorael, who is of course a fine one to throw stones. He has done absolutely nothing for the Spiderweb community to date. He just hangs around taking up virtual space and eating all the virtual chips. [ Saturday, February 17, 2007 13:45: Message edited by: Nuclear Socks ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 17 2007 13:42
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Drek you, ADoS. I don't want to hear you drek all over our drek. —Alorael, who has found a new word to use until it loses all meaning drek and simply drek becomes another drek linguistic intron. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 17 2007 00:19
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Since he's declared an end to Blades, probably not. —Alorael, who thinks that should perhaps be put as a huge banner somewhere prominent. "The future holds no Blades!" Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Saturday, February 17 2007 00:12
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Uh, Kel? I'm pretty sure TM is one of the oldbies of oldbies as well as being the king of kings. He was definitely around on day one of the Ikonboard, and I'm reasonably certain he was around for the pre-Spiderweb boards. Again, I think you can make any terms you'd like for any division that is conceivably useful. Generations are good. Trying to have very general catch-all like oldbie isn't useful because it isn't meaningful unless you define it. Rather than a dozen conflicting definitions, we can just use different terms. —Alorael, who doesn't really think it's something that needs to come up in most daily Spiderweb conversations. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, February 16 2007 18:52
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Ground-up rewrite and screenshots suggest a new engine to me. —Alorael, who will now hope for the best and brace for disappointment. Actually, he'd better start preparing disparaging comments just in case. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Friday, February 16 2007 18:45
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I can play it, and I can even play it without obvious graphics problems and the like. I can't make it be fun. —Alorael, who reiterates his lack of a response. To rate it is to give it dignity. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |