Profile for Or else o'erleap.
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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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| my stats and greetings in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, November 16 2006 13:50
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He's my character in GF4. Was that unclear? You may address him as Ralogellut. —Alorael, who did not initially give him that name. It was a later addition based on the way his creations always ended up. Geneforging does funny things to people. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 16 2006 13:47
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That's a fictitious Chinese chairman, not a scientist. —Alorael, who doesn't really see how that helps unless you are multiplying your Demonslayers through advanced quantum chemistry. Why not just blame it on alchemy? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| going behind blackcrag in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Thursday, November 16 2006 13:40
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You can't wander around in the courtyard easily, but you can get to see a little bit more of Blackcrag via secret passages. For everything else you'll have to resort to [censored illegal means], but there's nothing in the rest of Blackcrag anyway. —Alorael, who excludes the chance to leave to the north and cause bizarre glitches as you end up in places man was never meant to be. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 16 2006 13:30
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I actually have had treasure stockpiles in Exile/Avernum games because of the low gold/coin cap and the relatively few money sinks. I always sold my treasure immediately in A4, though, and in G4 I always seemed to be barely squeaking by with cash. —Alorael, who ran a very, very expensive shaper. Actually using items became immensely tempting with the AP changes. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Thursday, November 16 2006 13:24
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I offer my declining post rank as evidence of my innocence in all accusations of hidden spamming and spam/deleting. You've got nothing on me! —Alorael, who needs Arctic and Morgan to return and help him on an amazing -double +spam spree. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 15 2006 13:10
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So we're all grammar nazis? That makes this thread much easier to resolve. —Alorael, who just chalks it up to more xenophobia. All outsiders are evil and all outsiders have poor orthographic skills. No causal link must be established for hatred to commence. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 15 2006 13:07
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Oh, stop it. These aren't cults, these are cold, hard science. If you want cults you should head down to RWG. —Alorael, who does not acknowledge the false religions. He spits upon cows, sneers at Dikiyobianism (sorry, Diki!), and coughs nervously at Great Cthulhu. If you weren't mentioned, he holds you in even lower regard. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| how do I edit? in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, November 15 2006 13:05
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There should be a readme with the editor. You replace the relevant data files with the new editor files and then talk to the right character (the cook in Fort Monastery, I think). —Alorael, who wouldn't think of it as an editor like previous Avernums. It's more of a script that gives some characters new dialogue that in turn allows you to alter characters in an illicit fashion. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 15 2006 13:04
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Like most rebates, I'm sure it's predicated on the fact that most people don't put in the effort to get money back. Getting money back dishonestly would be even further. Besides, wouldn't everyone with enough of a conscience not to pirate the games feel filthy for robbing a shareware company? —Alorael, who would be extremely pleased if Jeff only returned the money to those who came to his house, shook his hand, and looked him in the eye while complaining about the game. All who flinch or avert their eyes can be fed to Spider. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 15 2006 12:59
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Maybe, but how many people can claim the same level of hording? —Alorael, who can't quite manage it. Sure, he saved literally every potion, ingredient, and crystal he found except the skill increasers, and he did stockpile arms and armor, but wands too? That's madness! And in Grindstone? Dedicated madness! Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 15 2006 09:10
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I'm willing to bet that the change was made yesterday. I'm also sure we'll hear about it when the maililng list proclaims the release of GF4. —Alorael, who also thinks this is a pretty unprecedented move for a game, particularly when there's absolutely no way to prevent people from "returning" the game without actually unregistering. And really, who can't figure out whether a game is good or not from the demo? Isn't that the point? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 14 2006 19:34
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20 pounds make a big difference, SNM. Not as much as a foot of typo, granted, but a lot. —Alorael, who decided that the best way for him to lose weight is to be the first volunteer for space missions. Alas, space missions seem to require fitness. Why must the world be so cruel? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 14 2006 13:36
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If you're actually six feet tall then you still sound like someone who may not be living through a famine but who certainly isn't getting three meals a day. On the other hand, borderline starvation is supposed to increase your lifespan. —Alorael, who can think of few things that earn one more starving artist credit than being an artist who is on the verge of starving. Food for thought but not the body and all that. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 14 2006 13:31
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I'm drity more often than you might think, and the real first post races were on the IB. I may even have been around for them, although I certainly wasn't involved or paying much attention. —Alorael, who uses the delete button only to fix his very occasional double posts and even more occasional posts that he makes, rethinks, and then decides should never have existed in the first place. If you haven't seen any you're not missing anything. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 14 2006 13:28
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MM is a bit of an ent, but I think Saunders is more of an Ent. She reliably posts once every few weeks, but she's not really around. And she's part of the great Spiderweb history. And she's a mod! —Alorael, who thinks the best Ent of all is Alcritas, who should have been a Misc. mod. But hey, there's always the next round of General elections... Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 14 2006 13:23
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One class is a servile. The other four are humans. —Alorael, who is pretty sure he isn't disclosing anything that wasn't disclosed previously. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 13 2006 18:54
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If it was to save Spiderweb's bandwidth then Djur was right and the rationale for avatar removal was not rational at all. —Alorael, who now has an urge to do that more often. Much, much more often. You may now be afraid. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 13 2006 18:49
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Considering that that combination of height and weight is indicative of a famine victim (or possbily a man on stilts), I certainly hope -X- is messing with us. —Alorael, who weighs between two and three times as many pounds per inch. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 13 2006 18:42
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Welcome to Spiderweb! You'll soon learn that the Alec, the poster who so disparaged rhyming verse, is unlikely to change his opinions so easily and is in fact far more likely to abuse your work and quite probably your personality, but it's all part of the ambience. —Alorael, who has of course now given Alec a competing obligation to prove him wrong. It's now a test of mental dexterity to see if he can both lambast the poem and spit upon this post. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 13 2006 13:03
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While what you say is very true, Alec, you are missing the point of vahnatai creationism. Anyone can apply the Occam's Razor of accepting the obvious and natural evolution of the world (except, I suppose, creationists). Creating and supporting an abstruse theory is a wonderful exercise in uselessness! Also, to nitpick, I think your theory of young vahnatai is even more complicated. What kind of wizard would or could fabricate memories for an entire race, or at least an entire clan? —Alorael, who prefers the Avernum engine but admits that BoE has shown itself to be the more successful scenario creation tool by several orders of magnitude. Neophobia is no less of a knee-jerk reaction than neophilia, and you can prefer one without loathing the other. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 13 2006 12:57
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Godfather would make more sense in the great era of Desp vs. Polaris, but most of the vocal elements of Desp are gone and Polaris is different now. I'm sure Alec could say it better. In their heydays Desperance was a collective godfather and Polaris a collective rebellion with half a clue. Tully seems like an idealogue and a capitalista of sorts, and I don't think he'd disagree. Spiderweb in general is swarming with tireless rebutters and has easily triggered and thinly veiled xenophobia. —Alorael, who is a bit disappointed by the absence of the Two-Fisted Master. He has also decided that he is, more than anything else, a waste of time and energy (and space and mass). Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 13 2006 12:36
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I thought the avatars were disabled for reasonable if not entirely sound reasons of other peoples' bandwidth. Pruning to save bandwidth was the decision that baffled me. I do have a few memories of Djur ranting about how there's no waste of bandwidth when the images are hosted by other people, though, so maybe the reasons were retroactively altered. HTML enablement is a choice. It is a choice that many of us have made quite consciously. It is a choice I make every day when I think, "Do I want to enable HTML for RWG? It would not definitely make things worse." And HTML stays disabled. —Alorael, who put excessive effort into this post. A cookie to those who notice and don't complain. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 13 2006 08:50
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I think "bloody" and probably "bloody hell" began and continue their lives in Britain as well. Not that they're not bloody good light swearing, mind you. —Alorael, who on behalf of the moderatorial and administrative staff (with the exception of the traitorous Kel) reserves the right to enforce the CoC on any profanity, no matter how mild or innocuous. Sometimes what Spiderweb needs is arbitrary justice. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 13 2006 08:46
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I don't really understand the Ent category, but otherwise the distinctions seem useful and the art, uh, explanatory. —Alorael, who cannot identify his own category and is therefore terribly afraid that he is something horrible. Or maybe just Loopy, which wouldn't be so bad after all. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |