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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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| Crossbows in Avernum 4 | |
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written Friday, October 20 2006 08:24
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Without arrows and bolts, ranged weapons that aren't themselves ammunition are all interchangeable. There wouldn't be a difference between bows and crossbows anyway, except possibly in AP, so it doesn't matter. —Alorael, who wonders if luxury products made from exotic cavewood from Avernum are strong sellers among the Empire's rich and bored. Sure, cavewood bows might be bad for serious use, but they make good conversation pieces, and you can always claim that you took it from the body of the Worm who killed your father. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Centrino duo? in General | |
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written Friday, October 20 2006 08:18
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Wikipedia is your friend. —Alorael, who firmly believes in creatvitiy in hyperlinking. Why choose a noun when you could choose a linking verb? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| that third empire army outpost by blackcrag fortress in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Friday, October 20 2006 08:14
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You can defeat the roaches and slimes in well under ten days. I'd be entirely unsurprised if some people don't even need five days. I, on the other hand, don't really like timers, so I shamelessly abuse the editor to alter the day. —Alorael, who also shamelessly abuses the editor to see what Valorim looks like if a certain intrepid band of Unspecified Services go-getters spend a few years on an amazing fermented mushroom bender. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Cheer up in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 21:20
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Have you ever tried to kill a fruit bat? I've certainly tried (it's a story for another day) and it was extremely hard. —Alorael, who decided to call it a draw. He did manage to drive off his foe, but only because his foe was apparently not interested in savaging him like a good b. [ Thursday, October 19, 2006 21:20: Message edited by: Bandwidth Sink ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| It began in New London in General | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 21:17
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Yes, for reasons already stated. Besides, the government has better things to spend its money on than giving the private sector a helping hand. —Alorael, who would really like to know how that little bit of Nevadan fun slipped through the press cracks. That's the kind of political horror that needs to be poked, prodded, and then set on fire. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Praying for God's forgiveness even now... in General | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 21:11
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Maybe I'm alone in this, but I don't mind music on a website. I mind bad music on a website, and most music is bad if you play it long enough. —Alorael, who is also of the opinion that nearly every MIDI is bad if you play it for more than a couple of seconds without extremely mitigating circumstances. The web is anything but mitigating. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Don't touch that dial! in General | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 21:09
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I don't own a TV or regularly watch anything, but I'll give another vote of approval to Firefly. I'm not sure how much that's worth given that it's probably the show of seen the most episodes of. In fact, he thinks the show he's seen the most of might be The Simpsons, and he's almost certainly seen no more than six episodes. —Alorael, who is just not a TV person. He has probably read one book for every minute of TV he's watched. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Jimmy! If you keep playing with it you'll break it! in General | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 21:06
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I don't own a single DVD. Like many things, I consider this both a badge of honor and a mark of shame. —Alorael, who doesn't even have any DVDs that he borrowed indefinitely, DVDs that he has stolen with the intention of returning them some day, or DVDs that mysteriously appeared. No DVD has ever been in his possession for an extended period. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Cheer up in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 21:03
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I still enjoy having my @ slaughter the alphabet, but I've been away from the world of pure text recently. —Alorael, who still remembers and/or invents the days when all games were just a series of 1's and 0's and you had to interpret them yourself. Be glad you have your fancy computers instead of pieces of paper or, in the really old days, digits scrawled in the dirt. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Cheer up in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 12:43
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I'm not sure about best Spiderweb game ever, but as someone who hasn't really liked Geneforge up to this point I can say that GF4 is a very good game. It also fixes quite a few of the most irritating flaws of previous Geneforges. —Alorael, who is guilty of dereliction of beta-duty. He needs to work on that. Every day of delay is probably his fault. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Invisibility in General | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 12:40
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No, it's definitely "invisibility" and not camouflage. It's just imperfect invisibility in non-visible wavelengths. Camo suits will have to wait until the technology becomes mobile and flexible (and, for that matter, useful in lower wavelengths) and radar evasion sounds more likely than radar redirection. I'm sure this has applications even as a bulky and immobile installation, but none come to mind immediately. —Alorael, who can't imagine what countermeasure one could use against bending light besides better resolution to detect slight perturbation and the use of lower wavelengths for detection. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Quick newbie question in Avernum 4 | |
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written Thursday, October 19 2006 08:41
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I meant Minor Manna, and I most definitely used it excessively to rebuild a food supply. Cast until empty, rest, repeat. It might not have been necessary or even useful, but it worked. Avernum's four characters work just fine as a design decision. I never feel like I don't have enough characters to work with, and it makes some encounters require a little bit more thought because you can just throw more people around or use them as barricades. —Alorael, who bought First Aid from money-only trainers and spent no skill points on it. By doing that for four characters you can get some very nice post-battle healing. [ Thursday, October 19, 2006 12:44: Message edited by: Hypertoroid ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Quick newbie question in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, October 18 2006 21:04
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Dark Waters never actually involves starvation. In E2 you can just cast Manna over and over and rest in between. The difference is in atmosphere. Not having food is scary in Exile, but in Avernum it's unusual to have food and even more unusual to need it. I like going from the relatively familiar territory of Exile to the unknown wilderness with absolutely no way back. For all that Exile/Avernum is supposed to be a scary wilderness, you rarely go anywhere without tripping over friendly towns, forts, hermits, and lunatics. Dark Water is one of the few times you're genuinely on your own. —Alorael, who likes Za-Khazi Run for similar reasons, except it's got way too many friendlies and not enough stretches of man vs. nature. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, October 18 2006 19:28
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Registering on Polaris is a level of commitment for which you are not ready and up with which you will not put? —Alorael, who will miss the <o> posts. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Quick newbie question in Avernum 4 | |
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written Wednesday, October 18 2006 19:25
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With enough First Aid you'll almost never have to rest, though, because most encounters with enemies will result in a net gain in energy to the point where you can keep healing yourself indefinitely. —Alorael, who disagrees about Avernum being linear. The plots and their arrangements are exactly the same as in Exile. The major plot changes are the addition of Lost Bahssikava in A1 (a minor plot point) and the change to the food system that makes the Dark Waters section of A2 not nearly as scary as its E2 counterpart. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| Which game to play? in General | |
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written Wednesday, October 18 2006 11:37
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SubTerra is a gem collection game distributed by Spiderweb once upon a time. It's now free, but its forum is still at the bottom of the list here. Blades of Exile allows anyone to make and play scenarios in the Exile 3 style. That usually means small adventures, but some of them are not so small. Quite a few are considered better than the Exile games in plot. In fact, if you like Exile 3 at all, get BoE as well. Don't trust the demo to give you a fair example of a scenario, because Valley of Dying things is considered barely this side of mediocre. [Edit: Bain-Ihrno's scenarios and a few utilities are here.] —Alorael, who also still thinks that despite all these years and amazing leaps in technology BoE is by far the easiest tool for creating your own game (as long as your game is Exile-style). [ Wednesday, October 18, 2006 11:39: Message edited by: Hypertoroid ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, October 18 2006 08:12
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Hm. I've got 10 system processes running, only one of which I had to look up to identify, 8 applications, 7 widgets, and one piece of malware called Microsoft AutoUpdate. —Alorael, who can only wonder why some applications get icons and some don't in the process list. Sure, some companies might not adhere to standards, but couldn't Apple properly label iTunes? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, October 18 2006 07:57
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If you want a really unbiased opinion, download the demos. The major differences are Avernum's isometric perspective and use of height, its slightly different skill system, and a very different and more limited list of spells. Exile 1 just seems too old to me, but E2 and E3 are both good. That said, I prefer the Avernum series. Also, just download Nethergate and start playing. Please. You can have more than one character in Geneforge, but only one is "you" and that's the only one with inventory and the full skill system. Geneforge feels very different. —Alorael, who actually has heard of and played Natuk. The only impression that stayed with him was the novelty of playing a party of typical interchangeable goblinoid victims and the excessive targeting system. Spleen damage, anyone? Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 17 2006 19:18
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Uh oh. Sounds like the Aranbot still needs a few upgrades and a patch. —Alorael, who wonders if all these newfangled bots and suchlike have finally given Thuryl the push he needed to pass his Turing test. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| No wonder I like spiderweb!! in General | |
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written Tuesday, October 17 2006 14:54
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I paid for it eight or nine years ago. At the time the absurdly low price was more than worth the time the phone line would have spent tied up on a 28.8k connection anyway. —Alorael, who remembers buying another game along with DM2. Settlers II, maybe. [ Tuesday, October 17, 2006 14:55: Message edited by: Eye Pie ] Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
| No wonder I like spiderweb!! in General | |
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written Tuesday, October 17 2006 11:17
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Fun fact: Dungeon Master 2 is the only game I've ever bought that cost less than a blank CD. I'm pretty sure the vendor lost money just on the time it took the cashier to ring it up. —Alorael, who would like to point out that Fable's having useless bells and whistles doesn't really make Spiderweb games' lack of bells and whistles superior. The implied but absent point is that Fable has nothing under the bells and whistles and Jeff manages to actually make games. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 16 2006 20:29
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Someone else still with AppleWorks? I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who still uses it. Not much, granted, but some. It crashes far less than Word and doesn't suffer from the crotchetiness of NeoOffice. And it's older! —Alorael, whose dock is ordinary and boring. He still shoves everything in folders and navigates to them with arrows and apple-down, which he remembers as an apparently undocumented key combination identical to apple-O. Then they went and documented it and ruined all the fun. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 16 2006 10:41
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I'd be happy to share the gmail invites, but I need an email address to send them to. PM me instead. —Alorael, who would actually prefer to be emailed. PMs are for running conversations and requests for illegal registration codes sent to mods. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 16 2006 10:39
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My laptop uses up its batteries during the day and gets recharged overnight. It's a good system, and it means I can keep Progress Quest running day and night. —Alorael, who has heard that it's better for battery lifespan, too. In fact, there's apparently a gadget that will make your battery run down and recharge even if you just leave your laptop plugged in. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Monday, October 16 2006 07:49
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It's funny that the comma insertions still aren't quite right. There should be one and only one comma between turgid and fleshy. I think we can see that Jeff still likes his old jokes. —Alorael, thinks it's also a new discovery, and it's even better than Anaximander no matter how well developed he may be. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |