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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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written Wednesday, October 25 2006 08:00
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They're there to buff you to slightly less than normally sane levels about a third of the way through the game. —Alorael, who cannot help his obsessive-compulsive gaming habits. Playing with scrupulous optimization does not make playing any more fun except in those horrendously difficult games in which optimal is barely adequate. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 19:34
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Perhaps the title should have a warning. Here be horrific scrolling and huge downloads! —Alorael, who has several landscape photos, none of which are in digital form. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 19:32
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Dvorak's Serenade for Strings. —Alorael, who thinks this has a high potential of becoming a stupid posting game. He's about 45% sure that it should be locked. If it hadn't existed before he would do it. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 19:28
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Are you sure you've identified them? Yes, you have to identify things as boring as ordinary arms and armor if you don't have much Item Lore. —Alorael, who hopes you don't mind losing a few gold on every identification before making any profit whatsoever. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 15:34
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When has insanity been an insult on Spiderweb? —Alorael, who isn't quite sure what outnumbering Tullegolar means, but it sounds unfortunate. Also, Tullegolar is a cumbersome name and shall henceforth be shortened. Possibilities include Tully, Lego, and Olar. Or, as appropriate, Ego. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| The FRAPGVRUKCP: now with twice the posting action! in General | |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 15:31
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Congratulations on your excessive posting, Dikiyikiwikipoit! —Alorael, who expects to see a lot more of these topics now that Spiderweb has become noisy again. Notice to all and sundry: Post at large, round numbers only. Or large arbitrary numbers in order to express disapproval of round numbers. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 12:29
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"As long as their work sells" is a terrible mark of good writing. All kinds of garbage sells. It's just good enough for authors who churn out popular garbage to pay the bills without having the guts to be real starving artists producing masterpieces that will only be appreciated a few hundred years later. —Alorael, who would rather get fantasy from authors unfamiliar with fantasy than fantasy like Eragon, which is all too familiar with other fantasy. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 12:23
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Calling someone wrong is fine as long as you justify it. Actually, calling someone wrong is always fine, but you tend to be on the receiving end of sneers if you can't back it up. (Around here one always receive sneers, though.) Calling someone a moron is pretty much never fine unless you've been here so long that everyone either leaves in a hurry or becomes inured to your abuse. —Alorael, who recommends calling people stupid in such creative ways that only intelligent people can figure it out. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Ever Wonder How Rotdhizons Get Around? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 12:18
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I hate those gaunt, ghoulish things. They kill my pretty, pretty lizards too often. —Alorael, who would like to know how many fire creations apparently survive having an internal combustion engine and how the cryo- versions manage to hurl balls of anti-fire, let alone survive with them. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 12:13
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I doubt it's actually all that hard to rush past most of the Eastern Gallery, get to Fort Samuels, train, and then head back. —Alorael, who played bowless and very nearly First Aid-less through the Eastern Gallery. He was very heavily mage dependent and doesn't think his thought process was all that good, but it's doable. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 12:11
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Forcing emancipation is no more helpful. I'd vote no, but not without qualms. In an ideal world children should always talk to their parents about abortion and parents should always be receptive and supportive. In a truly ideal world abortion would never be necessary, of course, because there would be no accidental pregnancies. In this very flawed world we live in, though, there are too many possibiiities. If the parents are going to make abortion non-feasible if they know it's going to happen, then I think it's everyone's right, even a minor's, to have an abortion without letting the parents know. If parents could rant and rave and forgive at worst I'd vote yes, but I do think there are children who think their parents would throw them out of the house or permanently harm them for getting an abortion, and some are probably right. —Alorael, who wonders how opinions might change if notification were up to 48 hours after the abortion. His own vote wouldn't change, because he thinks prevention isn't as scary as possible punishment. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 12:00
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An Angband @ worth his ASCII would be unfazed by any and all delterious ! and ? forced upon him. Otherwise he'd already have died to the hordes of Z. And while Angband-@ may be a young'un, his ancestors (32757 of them) date back far enough. I'm surprised myself that no one else has a comment on Where's My Cow? by Terry Pratchett. Seuss is definitely good, though, in all his forms, especially Fox in Socks form. —Alorael, who highly recommends the poetry of Neruda read by Neruda himself. He has a very distinctive and apparently deliberate style. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Ever Wonder How Vlish Get Around? in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 11:47
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Still too tame, Micawber. —Alorael, who thinks that Vlishes are filled with helium for a very good reason. They're the star creations, but they're also stars. No, you wouldn't know it to look at them, but they're very small and luminous nuclear fusion balloons. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 11:43
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I think I'll explain the return to the surface quest a bit. The actual process of finding bits of password and running the final gauntlet isn't fun. The idea is: you're given an entire game to explore while looking for exits, and there are several promising passages that end. I think it could have been played up more, but as is it serves as a perfect justification for a huge portion of the game. —Alorael, who guesses that he thinks the surface quest has the most potential. In reality he things of all the major quests as series of smaller quests with good parts and boring parts. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Avernums how many people do you prefer to use in each of the Avernum games? in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 11:38
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That's assuming equal fun per time. I'll accept that assumption since it's too subjective to argue, but then there's another problem. You're getting less time per game, so you're actually paying more per unit of fun. —Alorael, who gets more fun per time, more time per game, and more game per fun. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 11:34
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All questions like this are good things to email Jeff Vogel. —Alorael, who recommends getting a discount by ordering Nethergate with another Spiderweb game. Unless you own all the ones you like or have played the demos and rejected them, trying out a few more games could give you even more fun. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 24 2006 11:33
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That's still not the question, and the answer cannot be stated in binary form. Or, for that matter, in tongues known to humanity. —Alorael, who is somewhat less sure about tongues known to mirror moieties, roving or stationary. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 23 2006 20:01
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It's not a joke that requires comment. —Alorael, who has now just belied his own statement. Whoops. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 23 2006 19:57
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Skills from classes are treated identically to skills from training. You can't buy more from trainers, skill point costs for raising the skill higher increase, and so on. The advantage of classes it that you get more points, and the disadvantage is that some of them are spent in mind-boggling useless ways. Some of the classes are good, some are terrible, and some are mediocre. —Alorael, who tends to use Berserker occasionally and not really anything else. In particular there's no class that matches his favorite mage-priest design. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 23 2006 19:55
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Many fantasy authors claim that most of their reading is non-fantasy, and I'm willing to believe that. Reading for variety, non-plagiarized inspiration, genuine interest, and so on are all possibilities. I'd also be surprised if a fantasy author read no fantasy, though, because I'd assume anyone writing the stuff must enjoy it, and enjoying it means reading it. —Alorael, who can definitely tell that some authors don't read much in their area. There are certain fantasy and sci-fi tropes (beyond the obvious Tolkien kind) that have been bandied about in the books so long that they've become assumptions to be accepted or flauted. When they're not addressed, or seemingly unconsciously addressed, it seems like the author isn't familiar with those tropes. It's not always a problem (although it can be), but it stands out. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 23 2006 14:43
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How exactly does teen end at eighteen? And why does adulthood arbitrarily start at 21? Why are all "adults" lumped together at 22? —Alorael, who thinks the three most populous categories (so-called teen, young adult, and adult) really could have used a few more categories, particularly that absurdly large last one. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 23 2006 12:00
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Let the record show that I am heartily embarassed to have forgotten Angband. That game is far better than the original Zelda, although it has benefitted from another decade and a half of advancement. —Alorael, who bets @ with the right |, [, and ] could take Link with one arm tied behind its curly thing. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 23 2006 11:55
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Formello also has the most attractive landscaping and the generally speaking the least proximity to horrible monsters and/or foes of humanity. —Alorael, who somehow never thought of the nephilim in A1 or the undead in A2 as especially close to Formello even though Formello gives out the quests. As for shades, Formello's seemed like the least disastrous one. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 23 2006 10:41
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Songs of Innocence and Experience and The Marriage of Heaven and Hell are what make Blake a great poet. Then he went crazy and wrote his prophetic books, which are still good poetry but a little too far off the deep end for me. —Alorael, who got lost among the Urizens and Rintrahs. On the other hand, if there were a Church of Blake he'd at least want to see what the services were like. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 23 2006 10:37
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It's better not to remove any old post material entirely just so the thread doesn't stop making sense. As it is there's an answer to question that doesn't exist anymore. —Alorael, who also views entirely empty posts as an opportunity. When life hands you a blank slate (metaphorically) and the power to edit it (literally) that just may be a sign. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |