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Help me in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, December 24 2006 21:54 Profile Homepage #3
In case you didn't know, you can move diagonally by using the numeric keypad (if you have one) or the mouse.

—Alorael, who thinks details are sometimes very important.
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Windows GF 4 Testers Needed in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, December 24 2006 13:02 Profile Homepage #2
You don't need technical knowledge to beta test. You just need to be able to play, comment, and find the horrible bugs that make your computer catch on fire.

Jeff does not give out your information and does not, as far as I know, ever really use it for anything. He might not care at all if you leave some blanks, but there's really no reason to. Spiderweb is trustworthy.

—Alorael, who thinks the result might be Jeff ignoring your application because other people have filled theirs out more thoroughly. It can't hurt, though!
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ISO to CD/DVD in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Sunday, December 24 2006 13:00 Profile Homepage #3
Why not just do your burning with the Mac half of the computer?

—Alorael, doesn't actually know how well Macs handle ISO. Most of his very limited burning is with Toast and most of that is with DMG.
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A Developer Question in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Saturday, December 23 2006 11:25 Profile Homepage #11
I agree with Synergy. As a lifecrafter (or anyone else surrounded with creations), Monarch really isn't that bad. His help dies too quickly to accumulate and become a problem, and he himself isn't too difficult. Without allies the battle is much harder just because there's no good way to keep hitting both him and his creations, but that's what the various allies for hire are for.

—Alorael, whose biggest problem with Monarch was fighting him right before and right after the big change to stunning in the betas. He's really a pushover if attacks stun him into immobility. When you actually have to kill him he's slightly harder.
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this is of all interests in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Friday, December 22 2006 23:33 Profile Homepage #1
Don't cross-post, please. One thread in one forum is quite enough. Everyone can find it without another thread to point it out.

—Alorael, who is morally locking this topic. Please do not make any further replies.
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Merry Xmast to all in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 21 2006 20:26 Profile Homepage #17
You are a bad person, Tyran. Santa's gonna skip your house this year!

—Alorael, who is always here to right wrongs and hide horrible creatures from tender eyes. Even cute spiders must be placed safely behind links.
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Exile 3> Ancient Enemy Conceal Tunnel in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 21 2006 11:22 Profile Homepage #47
And as far as loot goes, significant. Avernum has a much larger number of minor unique items and a wider variety of powerful items overall. By the end of an Avernum game you can have your entire party decked out in good stuff. Exile games rely much more heavily on ordinary but good equipment.

—Alorael, who of course doesn't count Blades of Exile, in which even without making your own scenario to cheat with you can easily find yourself overburdened with amazing rewards after a few scenarios.
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Merry Christmas! (Statistics 2006-12) in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Thursday, December 21 2006 08:05 Profile Homepage #35
Remember that months aren't counted from the 1st to the 31st (or whatever the last day is). "November" was the 17th of October to the 17th of November. If you posted more in late November then your December numbers were increased.

—Alorael, who has boundless faith in the EndeavorBot. Some of it is because he trusts Aran, and some of it is because he has no choice about what beliefs were programmed into him.
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I wonder in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 20 2006 20:29 Profile Homepage #8
Except there are stables in backwater towns willing to sell horses to suspiciously pale foreigners for very reasonable prices.

—Alorael, who now feels guilty once again. He should really stop getting his mounts killed in the Filth Factory.
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Respect. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 20 2006 16:19 Profile Homepage #27
That works only until your addicts go so canister-crazy that they think they can kill you and somehow still get canisters, or maybe they don't bother to think ahead and just kill you.

—Alorael, who wonders what you do when you've given underlings so many canisters that they're on the verge of being able to make their own. Do you stop giving them canisters, removing their incentive not to kill you? Do you start worrying when there's a small army of addicts no longer getting their canister fix and eyeing you angrily?
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What do you want for X-Mas? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 20 2006 16:15 Profile Homepage #29
If anyone starts a Mac vs. PC war, I will be most unhappy. Give me a present and don't start the fight. Thank you.

—Alorael, who would like to be given one of the Google server farms. That would be neaet.
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Career Choices in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 20 2006 08:10 Profile Homepage #25
quote:
Originally written by Leatherface:

Um, traditionally the study of mathematics was considered a liberal art. However, at the University I attended it was under the faculty of Science.
And now the sciences are sometimes put among the liberal arts. Since "liberal arts" is an entirely vague concept, I decided to try to categorize by slightly less vague concepts even if they required neologisms. Actually, that's not true. I wanted a chance to make neologisms.

I'm not interested in debating whether or not math is a science, really. I did put in artificial "sciences," for what that's worth. It seems fairly self-evident to me that it isn't in the same category as sciences based on observation of the physical world, though of course that becomes tricky with things like theoretical physics.

quote:
In addition, your poll makes no note of applied sciences (like engineering). I assumed that it was included under unnatural sciences.
Unless you think engineering is magic, no. I'd categorize most engineering as natural science more than anything else because that's what it relies on most heavily (physics, mainly). Other applied sciences fall under behavioral science or somewhere in between.

[Edit: Typo. But it was quoted for posterty anyway!]

—Alorael, who has already admitted that it isn't feasible to make a poll that covers everything. He could be wrong, though, because he's no expert in poll design. This is an engineering problem!

[ Wednesday, December 20, 2006 10:57: Message edited by: Lock before the in. ]
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For those of you who live in a cave... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 20 2006 07:58 Profile Homepage #20
Using less electricity is still something to be proud of from an environmentalist standpoint, just not from a crazed survivalist standpoint.

—Alorael, who wonders how many fires are started during storms because of candles. He'd bet there's a surprising ironic correlation between rain and fires.
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House Unshaperlike Activities Committee in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 20 2006 06:23 Profile Homepage #99
Man can also live without the internet, computers, television, radio, telephones, gunpowder, steel, iron, and so on back to the early Stone Age. Nobody suggests we should go back to sticks and stones

—Alorael, who of course must qualify that statement. No reasonable people make such suggestions. Lunatics can go ahead, but maybe they should wait for mammoths to be cloned first.
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I wonder in The Avernum Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 20 2006 06:20 Profile Homepage #3
Chariots require flat, unbroken terrain for their wheels. Avernum is a cave full of stalagmites and rubble. Aside from roads, where would they be useful? Besides, while cave lizards are apparently acceptable draft animals and beasts of burden, I don't think they'd be up to the sustained quick movement required for effective chariots.

—Alorael, who was going to point out that cavalry generally replaced the chariot and that the Empire has cavalry until he realized that it doesn't seem to be true. The Empire has horses for riding, but all the soldiers appear to be unmounted. That's either for convenience on Jeff's part or because the Empire is an odd place.
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What do you want for X-Mas? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Wednesday, December 20 2006 06:11 Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by Emperor Tullegolar:

An image of Alorael getting his pants stuck in a bike chain and wiping out horribly is the best present I've gotten so far.
I don't fall off, I just rip my pants. I wouldn't want to spoil Christmas for you, though, so I'll admit that I did have an unfortunate and embarassing crash a week ago that left me humorously scarred.

—Alorael, who uses "humorusly" in the best Tullegolite sense of the word. Actually, Tully and Heinlein have a few things in common. Who would've guessed?
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What do you want for X-Mas? in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 21:13 Profile Homepage #17
For the holidays I would like... um... I wish I could honestly say something uplifting about it, but I'm just unable to think of anything that I want that's within a reasonable budget. It looks like another year of books and CDs, and as always I'll be buying most of the former for myself.

—Alorael, who guesses his life is also pretty good if he doesn't want much. He probably should get clothes, though. He doesn't have that many to begin with and he's stained a few shirts and gotten most of his pants caught in his bike's chain a few too many times.
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Respect. in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 21:10 Profile Homepage #20
quote:
Originally written by Kelandon:

ur moms not an ok juxtaposition
Not an okay juxtaposition either. "Ur" and "juxtaposition" aren't even the same language!

Ego, your use of gruesome examples only works if your underlings are sane. Once you start handing out the canisters that's a patently bad assumption. The victims of gruesome examples are in fact likely to be looked upon as warnings of how not to do it, not what not to do, and the examples themselves will be inspirations.

—Alorael, who has low confidence in any power structure based on the idea that everyone wants to kill everyone else. War is an excellent place to forget to provide key backup, or maybe to provide it to the other side. War is also not a place generally known for enhancing sanity and equanimity even in perfectly normal folks.

[ Tuesday, December 19, 2006 21:13: Message edited by: Lock before the in. ]
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For those of you who live in a cave... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 21:06 Profile Homepage #17
It is not totally uncommon for people to be idiots.

—Alorael, who thinks some research should be done on the correlations between weather and stupidity. Add a little bit of rain to the roads and drivers become less competent. Make it a few snowflakes and nobody is capable of basic driving-related tasks. Curiously enough, stupidity seems to peak at moderate inconvenience. In a really bad storm or blizzard people are cautious enough to pass for rational human beings.
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Career Choices in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 15:46 Profile Homepage #18
The list is neither exhaustive nor exclusive. I guess bioinformaticians can call themselves natural and artificial scientists. Many fields apply some math without actually being really mathematical. Pick for yourself.

—Alorael, who thinks Kel is putting the classical back in classical mechanics. Sic itur ad astra &c.
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Exile 3> Ancient Enemy Conceal Tunnel in The Exile Trilogy
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 12:51 Profile Homepage #41
You can capture anything in a soul crystal, including Erika and Rentar-Ihrno. The question is how long you're willing to spend attempting to do it, especially as it tries to eat you.

Pack Leaders are hard but not impossible to capture, but there's no real need to summon them.

—Alorael, who doesn't like summoning much in general. On the other hand, the experience lost to summoned kills makes very little difference at the end of the game.
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Career Choices in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 12:06 Profile Homepage #13
I just forgot to put in various arts besides writing. Oops.

Artificial science is my tongue-in-cheek way of combining fields of study that are entirely dependent on thought. There's no natural or observational component of mathematics or computer science.

—Alorael, whose studies of the mystical arts are impeded by his Rational Mind. At least he gets more experience.
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House Unshaperlike Activities Committee in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 12:02 Profile Homepage #93
See the Empire (Star Wars or Avernum, take your pick) and plenty of real-world dictatorships without shaping. It's quite possible. You've argued that the Shapers are different because their control is more absolute or more unshakeable, but the rebel shows quite well that they are eminently shakeable and indeed shaky.

Any weapon in the wrong hands causes destruction. If there were no shaping there'd be necromancers, demon-summoners, and Aura of Flamers. WIthout those there'd be guys with bigger swords.

Anything that generates wars is bad? Fair enough. The rebels are bad for causing a war. Genocide is bad, but shaping doesn't mean genocide. Even the Shapers weren't required to kill all the drayks and drakons. They just made a very bad policy decision. That may mean the Shaper leadership is evil, but it doesn't make the Shapers evil since day one and certainly doesn't say anything about shaping, which is after all a tool of the rebels as well as the Shapers.

—Alorael, who thinks he is repeating himself. He thinks he may, in fact, be saying the same thing more than once. It's a bit redundant, isn't it?
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I was afraid this day would come.... in General
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 11:56 Profile Homepage #60
"Absence makes the heart grow fonder."

"Out of sight, out of mind."

—Alorael, who concludes that nostalgia is the effect of people going out of their minds and becoming fond of TM.
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House Unshaperlike Activities Committee in Geneforge 4: Rebellion
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Law Bringer
Member # 335
 written Tuesday, December 19 2006 08:34 Profile Homepage #90
The fact that living weapons are morally complex doesn't make the Trakovite simplification any more correct. They require ethical decisions, but if all advances that led to hard questions were prohibited we'd live in a very sad society indeed.

—Alorael, who would accept the Trakovite reasoning if it were more nuanced. They could make a case for how the risks of shaping outweigh the benefits, but they don't do a good job. They just shout evil and grab the torches.
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