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Programming (Mac OS X) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, January 11 2007 14:23 Profile Homepage #1
What do you want to know about Mac programming? If you need a compiler, Xcode comes with OS X and works with a number of languages.

—Alorael, who is not exacly an ideal source of information, given that he is more of a mucker of code than a programmer.
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OK JEFF in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, January 11 2007 14:17 Profile Homepage #17
Given sufficient time, a time machine will end up in every time. In fact, given infinite time a time machine has a reasonable probability of occupying all space and time in the universe.

—Alorael, who has of course approximated the time machine as spherical, uniform in composition, uncharged, massless, and indestructible.
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Roofs? in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, January 11 2007 14:14 Profile Homepage #21
quote:
Originally written by Angry Ogre:

Its hooligans like me that keep the Avernum roofing industry in buisness.
Actually a very good point. I'm sure it's petty hooligans who got sent to Avernum in droves when the mayor wasn't banishing people for gloominess.

—Alorael, who wonders what the breakdown of Avernum's original exiles was in terms of political exiles, riffraff, absurdly charged hapless bystanders, and genuine minor criminals.
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When you post here at the forums... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, January 11 2007 14:12 Profile Homepage #5
While my browsing style depends on time, location, and current bandwidth, I have been known to open every single thread in a separate tab.

—Alorael, whose Safari windows are as messy as his desktop, which is as messy as the top of his desk.
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Food Census-Because we all have some opinion about it in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 20:10 Profile Homepage #37
Underhanded.

—Alorael, who is sure everyone has snowed or at least tried to snow once or twice. A dictionary helps.
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Food Census-Because we all have some opinion about it in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 14:29 Profile Homepage #30
quote:
Originally written by 7Synergy7:

Alo is not the only one around here to eat salads or raw vegetables unembellished. You'd be amazed how much flavor things actually have if you do not overstimulate your taste buds into oblivion with chemical flavorings and artificial sweeteners.
The problem is that you need to have much better produce for an undressed salad. Sometimes you don't want to taste what you're eating. Mainstream salad is unacceptable, though, so my topping of neccesity is hot sauce and/or salsa.

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Learned from experience: all tastes are aquired, and all tastes can be equally unacquired. Food is largely habituation and psychological. For instance, when I learned what poorly-digested milk does to the intestinal tract of the average person over the age of 12, it became rapidly very unappetizing. When I learned how nourishing certain vegetables are for me, I taught myself to like them.
Also true, although it's very hard to acquire a taste for food you hate. Then again, I've found my tastes changing unexpectedly.

Milk isn't bad for the average adult, but it's bad for most adults depending on ethnicity. It's a genetic thing. There was actually an interesting anthropological study recently tracking the spread of adult lactose tolerance genes.

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The only chocolate I like comes from a country other than America.
Why is it apparenly impossible for us to make decent chocolate? Germany's worst beats our best!

—Alorael, who uses Germany as an example only because he knows more Germans who send much-needed chocolate on special occasions. He's sure the rest of Europe is good at chocolate too.
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OK JEFF in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 14:19 Profile Homepage #11
No, Spiderweb isn't a support group. It is, according to Robin, "a big, steaming pool of estrogen."

—Alorael, who can now abuse his metaphor further by noting that Spiderweb seems to run low on steam whenever there aren't enough flames around to keep it going.
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My Birthday ..Old!!! in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, January 10 2007 14:16 Profile Homepage #6
Happy birthday, Fenwik! Maybe G4 can be a late birthday present.

—Alorael, who wouldn't be too sure that using a computer won't kill you before you're sixty. See, back in the good old days men were real men and a little thing like computing was nothing. It would take a dozen to do what they once did, weak as men are now.
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Avernum 2 Singleton[Almost] in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 9 2007 19:22 Profile Homepage #1
You gain levels slower as you go up in levels. Your two characters won't be twice as high in level as a party of four, but they will be quite a few levels higher.

—Alorael, who thinks it's worth pointing out that singletons are considered challenging. Doubletons are still challenging.
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Geneforge or Avernum Series? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 9 2007 19:09 Profile Homepage #43
Nethergate could reasonably have most of the engine tweaks up to A3/BoA, and that would be lovely.

—Alorael, who still prefers the Nethergate engine to the Geneforge engine. Real time is for people who react faster than molasses. And playing cursor hunt on fast-moving people you need to talk to is really unnecessary.
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The SpiderWebWorld in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 9 2007 15:00 Profile Homepage #126
quote:
Originally written by Leatherface:

quote:
...but I'm content as long as someone is wagging the dog.
Alright, who's the tail?
I'd say Stareye, but he's nobody's tail.

—Alorael, who thinks it's probably Arctic. At least he has a tail among his other appendages.
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2006 in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, January 9 2007 14:56 Profile Homepage #2
The past is locked in stone.

—Alorael, who supposes this goes for everyone but Slarty and Robin, who can edit their posts, and mods and admins, who can edit their posts as well as this one.
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The SpiderWebWorld in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 8 2007 21:52 Profile Homepage #121
I was nominating Nemesis for Albania, but I'm content as long as someone is wagging the dog.

—Alorael, who actually thinks that one might be appropriate for Egol. Poland is so much better, though.
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Anagrams in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 8 2007 21:48 Profile Homepage #14
Mine always makes me wonder what other kind of ale I'm missing out on.

—Alorael, who is apparently a real lo, which he knows à la lore.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Roofs? in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 8 2007 21:38 Profile Homepage #18
Thuryl is right. I didn't count the comma or the space.

—Alorael, who doubts Avernum's drips are widely spaced enough to allow entire buildings to be placed between them. And don't forget the chance of falling debris, especially in areas with quakes or sudden vahnatai invasions.
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The SpiderWebWorld in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 8 2007 16:14 Profile Homepage #105
Albania.

—Alorael, who doesn't trust you at all. You're shifty!
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I Need Math Like a Hobo Needs A Bath in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 8 2007 16:06 Profile Homepage #22
The square root of two is not rational. Trying to write it as a fraction or decimal will be problematic unless you are approximating or squaring the circle in Indiana. That does mean that the square root of two isn't known, exactly, and someone could go on calculating digits forever like they do with pi.

I'm happy just writing a two under a radical.

—Alorael, who really thinks that e^?i deserves discussion.
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Roofs? in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 8 2007 14:58 Profile Homepage #11
Diki is only obligated to make the last paragraph third person. The rest can be first person.

—Alorael, whose gimmick is quite similar. The critical difference is his obligation to start with 11 characters with no variation.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
Food Census-Because we all have some opinion about it in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Monday, January 8 2007 14:52 Profile Homepage #9
What is your favorite food?
Maybe hot and sour soup. Or maybe stir fry. Or maybe cereal!

What is your most hated food?
I'm sure there are foods out there that I hate, but I can't think of any. Anything whose major component is a slab of meat is a contender.

McDonalds and similar fast food are out of the question.

Is there any circumstance under which you would eat your most hated food?
Slabs of meat, yes, although I'd have to be very hungry. I could conceivably be hungry enough to eat at McDonalds, but I never have been. A day without food is not hungry enough.

What is your favorite beverage?
Cranberry juice or tea.

What do you normally cook spur of the moment?
Quesadillas or gazpacho, depending on how long the moment is.

Are you a vegetarian?
I think of myself as a fair weather vegetarian. Not liking most meat isn't really vegetarian, though.

What is your favorite dessert food?
Mousse, ice cream, or (for a totally different texture) baklava. And I wouldn't have thought of it without Nico.

What is your favorite type of chocolate?
Dark and not very sweet. I have been known to eat cooking chocolate.

Favorite pizza topping(s)?
Any combination of peppers (bell and hot), onions, broccoli, spinach, and plenty of tomato sauce. Cheese is entirely optional.

Favorite breakfast?
I don't really eat much in the way of breakfast, but what I do eat is invariably dry cereal. I have been known to continue eating dry cereal throughout the day. Cheerios are wonderful things.

Least favorite breakfast?
Sausage, eggs, hash browns, and other typical breakfast foods. Pancakes are okay, but I can live without them. Bagels are better, but I like neither lox nor cream cheese.

Favorite protein food?
Tofu.

Favorite fruit?
Bananas all the time (imports, huzzah!), pears seasonally.

Favorite vegetable?
Peas. Most vegetables are good raw, but many suffer badly when cooked.

Favorite popcorn topping?
There's nothing you can put on popcorn to make it good.

—Alorael, who will also confess to eating undressed salad and sometimes even undressed salad consisting entirely of lettuce and spinach. His friends and relations mocked him. In retaliation, he began making undressed salads with Cheerios. That shut them up, although it was mostly horrified silence.
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In memoriam, Polaris in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, January 7 2007 19:18 Profile Homepage #14
An interim interim that briefly didn't work.

—Alorael, who thinks there is a kind of beauty in all this. It's the kind that makes you gouge out your eyes, though.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
I Need Math Like a Hobo Needs A Bath in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, January 7 2007 19:16 Profile Homepage #7
quote:
Originally written by Andraste:

quote:
Originally written by Nioca:


They're having you do the square root of 2? The last time I checked, that was impossible. :confused:
It's actually 45 degrees or pi/4. If trig's your thing.
You're missing a sine or cosine to make those two equivalent.

—Alorael, who has squared the circle. It's really not too hard. You just have to press on the edges a little, but it helps to have a friend so you have one hand for each side.
Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00
SubTerra levelpack 2006 in SubTerra
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, January 7 2007 19:10 Profile Homepage #14
I do believe that's a very odd mispost.

—Alorael, who didn't know SubTerra had vlishes. Are they an easter egg?
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Home-written comics in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, January 6 2007 22:49 Profile Homepage #17
Hey! It's an orange cat that's actually funny!

—Alorael, who enjoys both the photography and the comics. Has your cat given permission for his likeness to be used, though? He'll probably want some royalties. Cats are like that.
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Favorite Classical Performers? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, January 6 2007 22:44 Profile Homepage #10
Marc Minkowski and Les Musiciens du Louvre have deeply impressed me with just about everything I've heard.

For individual performers, I'm a fan of Leon Fleisher's piano, Itzhak Perlman's violin, and two flautists of the recorder variety: Dan Laurin for over the top flashy stuff, and Marion Verbruggen for brilliance.

—Alorael, who will give a pseudocookie to anyone who has even heard of the last two.
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A modest proposal in Richard White Games
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, January 6 2007 22:37 Profile Homepage #7
I think you have it wrong, my good sirs. Christian babies taste the best. The Jews and/or Satanists definitely know what they're doing.

—Alorael, who has it on good authority that DARPA knows the value of babies as well.
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