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wikipedia forever? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 12:54 Profile Homepage #38
I can't imagine 28,000 cubic anything. First I need to take the cube root and know what the length is per side. 30 cm? That's fine. Now I have a pretty good idea, actually. Well, maybe. Kind of.

[Edit: Fixing grammar up of!]

—Alorael, who in fact has no idea at all. He would need to know how densely packed the hay is, and he would also need to have a basic ability with spacial reasoning or whatever the fancy term for it is now. The point is that 30 cm is no easier or harder than 1 foot, and that's ignoring the fact that they are in this case the same thing.

[ Wednesday, January 24, 2007 13:12: Message edited by: Serial 11532A-96M56E ]
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Endeavor and Privacy in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 12:33 Profile Homepage #42
I meant per individual, actually. I think people are more likely to lash out than to express appreciation. Of course, some people appreciate others lashing out, hence the first rule of karma: it ends up at four stars.

—Alorael, who expects Imban to come along and start handing out his one stars promptly.
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Chromite!! CHROMITE, baby!! in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 12:30 Profile Homepage #2
Screen doors on a motorcycle.

—Alorael, who may need to start up his locked thread collection again. Seriously.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, January 24 2007 10:48 Profile Homepage #38
I'm actually interested in knowing who gets karma votes, although the actual number isn't very meaningful. I'm willing to bet that most votes are for people who are offensive, not people who are nice, but I can't prove it without data.

Actually, I can't prove it at all because I am lazy. But now I can potentially prove it!

Other than that, I think your default settings are good, Aran.

—Alorael, who discovered through the miracle of Google that his name and moniker are still tenuously connected. He's rather surprised, since he knows there are a number of places where his online and offline personas are linked. It's apparently just not obvious enough for Google or lost in the deep web.
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I'm pretty sure in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 22:24 Profile Homepage #3
Rebate seventeen !squirrel the predilective

—Alorael, who must do what must not be done. It shall have been done yesterday as of tomorrow a week from today. Cry Chromium and let slip the needle/ferrets of war!
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A New Series in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 22:22 Profile Homepage #17
I could live with King Arthur looking like King Micah, though. And yes, what I really want in Geneforge is a way to make people stop moving so I can click on them to talk.

—Alorael, who agrees that comedy can either be made into a hit or a miss, but it's quite possible to make something that is all hit and no miss. To draw analogies to old LucasArts point and click adventures, you can either go with the completely wacky (Monkey Island most recently, but plenty of the old Scumm games) or the overall serious with dashes of humor (Loom).
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Where's Silverchat? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 13:03 Profile Homepage #3
Yes, you wrote a very nice walkthrough, Schro. It's the maps that are missing.

—Alorael, who thinks perhaps the game that most deserves it and least has it is Nethergate. That's a project for his copious free tiem!
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 11:45 Profile Homepage #16
"Reasonably" never stopped lawsuits before. It's unlikely to win, but it's still a hassle.

—Alorael, who still thinks it's also unlikely to lead to lawsuits. Nothing on Spiderweb is likely to cause that much upset, really, and most people just aren't that litigious. Opt-in/out is still the Right Thing, though.
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A New Series in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 09:49 Profile Homepage #9
The system has had very minor changes, but I'm okay with that. It's not broke, so don't fix it. THe engine, on the other hand, changed hugely (ground up rewrite, I believe) in G1. A4 moved back in the direction of Nethergate/Avernum, and I prefer it that way.

—Alorael, who really just does not like real-time in his RPGs. Baldur's Gate is acceptable because you can pause. Geneforge has no pause. Perhaps he should have been a beta-tester for G1 and requested a pause function then.
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 23 2007 09:46 Profile Homepage #12
Although it's a bit more work, I can see reasons to have different fields listed separately.

PDN, title, and post count changes should be tracked. Those archives would be nice to have available. Member number is obviously necessary. Everything else should either be available only by looking up that number on Spiderweb or by opt-in, and if you're feeling programmish it wouldn't hurt to have current profile and profile archives availabe as separate opt-in choices.

—Alorael, who occasionally thinks that having the internet permanently recorded would go a long way towards promoting not only netiquette but also plain old civility online. On the other hand, anarchy is part of what the internet is about and it would be a shame to lose the spectacular flamewars. N00b!
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wikipedia forever? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 22 2007 22:08 Profile Homepage #35
English feels that it has a right to spell anything any way it wants. Foreign with a K sound? Usually written with C or K when followed by an A? Let's make it a Q!

Is there any rhyme or reason to our transliterations from Arabic? I don't understand them at all.

—Alorael, who calls upon the linguists of Spiderweb to justify the ways of English to man.
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Where's Silverchat? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 22 2007 21:59 Profile Homepage #1
Silver harloe hasn't actually done any work on his maps in years, but he was good enough to rehost them when they went down. We'll just have to live with a very complete map/walkthrough for A1 and a good one (by Rache) for A3, and spottier help for A2.

—Alorael, who wonders how A2 fell through the cracks like that. For the favorite Avernum it has received curiously little walkthrough love.
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A New Series in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 22 2007 21:57 Profile Homepage #5
I wouldn't mind seeing that comedy RPG Jeff mentioned once. Other than that, I still have faith in Jeff's ability to come up with something good. While the execution in individual games isn't always perfect, I think the concepts behind Exile/Avernum, Geneforge, and Nethergate are all rock-solid.

—Alorael, who can live with the Geneforge plot continuing and even more hijinks in Avernum, although the latter needs some fresh events badly. What he really wants is a new engine, or perhaps more accurately an old engine. G4 grew on him, but he'll still take the Avernum engine over Geneforge's any day.
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Do you play music when playing Avernum? in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 22 2007 21:53 Profile Homepage #55
iTunes has commercials on its classical radio. That makes me an unhappy camper.

—Alorael, whose favorite real radio station closed its doors and lowered its antennas this afternoon. Now he is obligated to depend on his CDs (and sometimes others' CDs).
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The Halo Suit of the Modern World - Fraud? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 22 2007 21:50 Profile Homepage #24
I don't really see armored suits becoming common tools of self-defense. Sure, it may be comfortable, but I don't see it becoming anything but awkward casual wear in the near future. Consequently, anyone wearing it is marking himself as a soldier, a crackpot, or a criminal. The first is unlikely in, say, Los Angeles, and the other two deserve investigation.

—Alorael, who also doesn't think that $2000 is within the budget of most criminals. Or, for that matter, their needs. How many people decide that the best way to perform armed robbery is in a suit of armor?
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The Chosen Ending - Geneforge 5 in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 22 2007 12:04 Profile Homepage #12
I think a combination of endings has set the stage for a complete breakdown of society. Traditionalist Shapers, Shapers who don't abide by the rules anymore, rebels, Drakon rebels, human rebels, rebels who think maybe this was a bad idea, Trakovites who aren't in the shadows anymore, and I'm sure the list can go on. No faction really has much power alone anymore, which means alliances, which means a lot of fun playing the diplomat.

—Alorael, who doesn't expect that kind of diplomacy in G5. He does expect chaotically fragmented society. What else do the million factions add up to, really? Having factions dissolve as they did after previous Geneforges would be no fun at all.
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A Statistically Happy New Year! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 22 2007 11:55 Profile Homepage #96
Don't be nasty. The plight of the SATUDENT is a harsh one.

—Alorael, who has prepared legislation making spambots illegal for all time. Bombing begins in five minutes. Alas, if only Reagan lived up to his big talk...
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Killing innocent people in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 22 2007 06:54 Profile Homepage #14
So, is adventure capitalism getting very rich by finding someone who's likely to take money now and turn it into more money in the future, breaking into their home, and taking everything not nailed down?

—Alorael, who at least understands Cheney. It was moving, so it had to be shot. Very simple, really.
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wikipedia forever? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 21:41 Profile Homepage #30
Wikigovernment was proposed in a cartoon. It's a frightening and yet oddly alluring concept.

—Alorael, who is pretty sure the Constitution would be locked to all edits immediately. And then probably hacked.
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The Halo Suit of the Modern World - Fraud? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 21:23 Profile Homepage #5
That fails the evil overlord test. Anyone could slip into that armor, pretend to have a broken transmitter, and start killing the guards.

—Alorael, who otherwise thinks it's brilliant. He has no idea how reasonable $2000 is for that production, but if it's viable it's a great cost for outfitting troops.
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Killing innocent people in Avernum 4
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 21:12 Profile Homepage #12
I'm far more murderiferous in Geneforge. I figure most of them are part of evil factions that must be purged anyway. Besides, shapers don't do warm and fluffy. They do conquest by the sword, tooth, claw, baton, and fireball.

—Alorael, who wonders if the American government is made up of adventurers. It would explain a few things.
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What have you been reading lately? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 12:46 Profile Homepage #309
If you've read the Baroque Cycle, you'll notice that Enoch Root was also around in the mid 17th century. Although he's technically an alchemist, not a wizard. Apparently he did indeed find the elixir vitae.

—Alorael, who supposes that means he has root access to reality. Har har har.
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wikipedia forever? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, January 21 2007 12:45 Profile Homepage #27
quote:
Originally written by Cryptozoology:

quote:
Originally written by Sic canis:

some people
Avoid weasel words. :P
"Most Wikipedians"

—Alorael, who hopes you're satisfied. He's gonna revert you fifty times now.

[ Sunday, January 21, 2007 12:47: Message edited by: Sic canis ]
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 23:17 Profile Homepage #23
Wikipedia just requires the same skepticism as anything else. If you detect a heavy bias, or even a slight slant, in a source, you take it with a grain of salt. In Wikipedia, you can pretty much expect everything to have someone's slant from sometime.

—Alorael, who finds the citation tags amusing. It's quite clear that some people don't actually know what citation is for.
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Please please please give me sympathy? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, January 20 2007 14:22 Profile Homepage #18
Sympathies added. Heal fast, Nico! How can you wield pencils without a strong right arm for stabbing?

—Alorael, who wonders if it is perhaps not a great idea to be typing. Absence is good if it means less pain!
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