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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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| Roofs? in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Saturday, January 6 2007 22:31
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Avernum is never really described, temperature wise, but I'd imagine it's on the cold side of bearable and slightly damp. Climate varies enough that the sliths are fine in some caves and miserable in others. So, at what distance from lava fields are property values highest? —Alorael, who thinks everyone needs a roof to keep the cave bats out. It's funny that Avernum has walled towns instead of basically single, huge, fortified buildings. That would be less homy but probably easier to set up. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| In memoriam, Polaris in General | |
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written Friday, January 5 2007 14:16
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It's about time for Polaris to move on. Another year, another host, another URL, and so on. —Alorael, who votes for Ezboard. It would be a full circle and work perfectly to alienate everyone not already repulsed by Polaris. Which, y'know, isn't really that bad. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| What Games... in General | |
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written Thursday, January 4 2007 13:44
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It was a deliberate ambiguity. Take advantage all you want. It's also one of my all-time favorite minor bugs. Hold down space and you attack constantly in Mantra. With a sword, that means you just hold it out. With a bow, that means you fire a solid stream of arrows. Sometimes the stream mysteriously hits the edge of the screen and kind of wraps around so the arrows reappear in a corner and head straight for you, causing you to die rapidly. Enough bugs like that, and there are plenty in Mantra 2, and you may want to shoot someone yourself. You'll certainly want to shoot someone or something. —Alorael, who probably shouldn't generalize like that. His shooting urges are well known already and apparently not common in the wider population. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| What Games... in General | |
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written Wednesday, January 3 2007 14:22
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Now I know I answered right. I've tried every single Spiderweb game, including RW games, SubTerra, and Homeland. I've registered (or had registered for me) E3, BoE, all the Avernums, Nethergate, and Geneforge 4. —Alorael, who liked Mantra a whole lot more than Mantra 2. The second was prettier and more intricate, but it was also buggy, glitchy, and unbalanced. Machinebows were too good except for the occasional shooting yourself to death bug. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| New Year's Resolutions! in General | |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 15:58
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I've excised all my flaws long ago. —Alorael, who resolved to come up with a better resolution next year. This was a better resolution than his one from last year, at least. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Geneforge or Avernum Series? in General | |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 15:56
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Actually, a lot of software takes significant performance or system requirement hits when it's ported. Fortunately, Spiderweb isn't all that performance-intensive in the first place, and I think the porting is all done fairly competently. —Alorael, who is sure that those who insist on pointing out that Jeff is not a brilliant programmer would take exception to this. The games work, though, and nobody seems to be unable to run them on reasonable machines. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Exile 3 questions in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 15:53
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"I eat therefore I am." Ergo is about as reasonable in Spanish as in English. It gets bonus points for remaining in a romance language, but Spanish doesn't have the infinite plasticity of English. —Alorael, who was in fact deliberately misquoting. He's going for a series of butchered literature now. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Exile 3 questions in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, January 2 2007 09:40
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I'm not anyone now? —Alorael, who knows several people have partial lists. He doesn't think anyone else is keeping track currently. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Geneforge or Avernum Series? in General | |
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written Monday, January 1 2007 12:29
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I've been playing since the days of E1, although not day one of E1, and I've been using a Mac the whole time. More specifically, a series of Macs. I prefer Avernum to Exile and both to Geneforge, but Geneforge 4 is one of Jeff's best and Avernum 4 is, well, not. —Alorael, who would like to point out that Nethergate has once again been overlooked. It's Jeff's best game, really. Get it, play it, and exclaim how much you love it in a manner that discomfits those around you. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, January 1 2007 12:29
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I've been playing since the days of E1, although not day one of E1, and I've been using a Mac the whole time. More specifically, a series of Macs. I prefer Avernum to Exile and both to Geneforge, but Geneforge 4 is one of Jeff's best and Avernum 4 is, well, not. —Alorael, who would like to point out that Nethergate has once again been overlooked. It's Jeff's best game, really. Get it, play it, and exclaim how much you love it in a manner that discomfits those around you. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Exile 3 questions in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Sunday, December 31 2006 21:41
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Name changes take well under 20 seconds, and that's mostly dependent on my connection speed. —Alorael, who can't claim to put much thought into most of his names. They're a stream of consciousness thing. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| 2007- What movies are you looking forward to? in General | |
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written Saturday, December 30 2006 19:00
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Besides the over the top BDSM, which can easily be converted into plain old torture, what in Wizard's First Rule is especially pornographic? Goodkind didn't really start reaching out to the lowest common denominator until later books. —Alorael, who coincidentally notes that it's already around that point that he started reaching out to the objectivists. Around book 5 or 6 it becomes not very thinly veiled allegory. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Saddam Hussein's Execution in General | |
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written Saturday, December 30 2006 14:50
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Saddam Hussein may have committed far greater crimes than most, but his death seems like it still doesn't really help. Deterrence? I don't think that's going to work on would-be dictators. Closure? Maybe, but I'm afraid that responding to crimes with death is really not the right message for Iraq's volatility right now. I don't think execution is ever a good solution, but in this case it was more unhelpful than it usually is. —Alorael, who thinks not executing Saddam would have been a far more significant gesture than executing him. It probably wasn't politically acceptable, but it would have been the most moral thing to do. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| 2007- What movies are you looking forward to? in General | |
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written Saturday, December 30 2006 14:42
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Sweeney Todd. I'm skeptical about how good it will actually be, but I love the musical enough to be hopeful. —Alorael, who doesn't even know what other movies to expect in 2007. 2008 will have an interesting Lions of Al-Rassan, though. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Who still plays the Exile Trilogy & Why in General | |
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written Saturday, December 30 2006 14:31
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I first found Exile on a random shareware CD, but I first heard of Exile from an acquaintance. —Alorael, who think putting Spiderweb games on CDs is good free advertising. Are those CDs still made, though? The internet seems to have gone a long way towards supplanting them. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| disapearing npc exile3 (purgatos) in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, December 28 2006 11:45
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Please don't revive threads that have been dead for months, especially if you don't have anything to add. —Alorael, who brings you this public service announcement in order to prevent it ftom being said again. Repeatedly. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| deamons in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, December 28 2006 11:40
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Sort of, but I think your terms aren't quite right. Demons and hell hounds and such are apparently not native to the world of Avernum, but they can be summoned. They may use magic (or not), but they're not magical. Dragons, humans, sliths, vahnatai, giants, and nephils (and arguably troglodytes) are all magic-using intelligent species, but they're not inherently magical. Okay, maybe dragons and drakes are inherently magical, but they also might just be inherently magic-using. —Alorael, who doesn't really know what the difference would be between a creature and a magical or semi-magical creature. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| deamons in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, December 27 2006 22:08
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It's hell because it's an apparently fiery and unpleasant place filled with demons, who are really just fiery and unpleasant people. Catholics have a similar fiery and unpleasant place called hell (or Hell) as well, but the two shouldn't be confused. —Alorael, who can't see Beelzebub as a haakai. It just doesn't work. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Exile 3 questions in The Exile Trilogy | |
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written Wednesday, December 27 2006 22:05
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Since I signed the post just like every other post, you should know in a general sense who I am. —Alorael, who is in fact a delaying tactician, or who at least was one at some point in the fairly recent past. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Warded Sea Caves in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Wednesday, December 27 2006 09:04
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You can get through the caves to end up somewhere useful. Moseh's Bunker, I think. Yes, it's possible to sneak around some pylons and deactivate others, although it takes a fair amount of Mechanics to flip the switches that let you reach treasure. Mostly it's a matter of being careful, saving frequently, and not being afraid to get really dangerously close to the pylons. —Alorael, whose great breakthrough was discovering that it is, in fact, possible to open some chests and activate some devices through the pylon line. It's only useful in two places that he found, never with any real benefit, but it's pretty neat. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| deamons in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, December 27 2006 09:00
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Oddly enough, they come from hell. —Alorael, who doesn't think anyone actually calls the other world/plane/universe that Grah-Hoth and company come from hell. That's what it is, though. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Best (and Worst) Movies of the Year in General | |
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written Tuesday, December 26 2006 20:22
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The only 2006 films I've seen are Thank You For Smoking and The Inside Man. Both were good, but the first was extremely good and the second only acceptably entertaining. I have not seen Eragon, but the book doesn't strike me as a good core around which to build a cinematic masterpiece. Or any masterpiece, really. A good movie could be made, but its quality would correlate directly with liberties taken. —Alorael, who doesn't think Eragon is terrible, exactly. It suffers from being highly derivative and not terribly interesting or well written, but there are certainly worse efforts available. What makes Eragon so unpalatable is the sheer amount of attention and press that has been heaped upon it. It's mediocre. It should be left to its mediocrity. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Windows GF 4 Testers Needed in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, December 26 2006 10:42
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Apropos of nothing, really, it occurs to me that Jeff probably cares a lot more the technical details of the computers his Windows testers use than the details of his Mac beta testers. The latter get some leeway because a lot of the important work is just making the game playable and balanced. That's presumably done for the Windows testing, which is really just making sure the port is functional. —Alorael, who still hopes for balance comments that lead to a better game. In other words, nerf the servile! Power to the shock troopers! Fyoras for the masses! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| frendly spiders in Avernum 4 | |
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written Tuesday, December 26 2006 00:49
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Well, it is called Spiderweb Software. Spiders make sense. More specifically, all the arachnophilia comes from Jeff's pet tarantula named Spider. He's cute. —Alorael, who doesn't know if he is still cute or formerly cute. Tarantulas can apparently live for quite a while, though, and he (or she) may have become the proud parent of a thousand little baby Spiders. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Calendar in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Monday, December 25 2006 17:50
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Rememberance 1: Avernum's birth. Training doesn't cost any gold. Suncome 15: High alignment. Melee attacks do double damage. Radiane 14: The day of recall. All shops are closed. Empire 8: Night of vengenance. All melee weapons are cheaper. Leafloss: No holiday Icefall 1: Low alignment. Melee attacks do half damage. Frost 29: Battle Eve. All spells are cheaper. Evermoon 3: The Terror. More wandering encounters. —Alorael, who owes this post to a combination of Seletine and the Encyclopedia Ermariana. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
