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| Displayed name | Student of Trinity |
| Member number | 3431 |
| Title | Electric Sheep One |
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| Registered | Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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| Paradox of Technology and Jobs. in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, May 24 2005 16:41
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Well, I'm dismayed that Japanese companies are exporting environmental degradation, but that sort of sounds like ordinary nationalism, not plutocracy. About the irrelevance of campaign finance laws: not at all. The only reason campaigns are expensive is that the other guy is spending a lot of money and you have to compete. If no-one is allowed by law to spend zillions on television blitzes, then no-one needs to. Democracy does predate television, after all. The problem is simply that Americans in general are not worried enough about plutocracy to accept a bit of therapeutic tyranny. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Challenge: spiced ham in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, May 24 2005 16:32
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Pretty much everything is fair play until you actually enter Monastery Caves. At that point, you should not do exitzone, because surviving the spawned rogues on the long way back to the essence pools outside is part of the challenge. (Plus it'd be an extreme drag working your way back from the school to the Monastery Caves.) You could certainly try just leaving your pc at the entrance, though, and sending out waves of ornks. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| What speed, regen enhancements do - from Jeff in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, May 24 2005 15:50
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Thanks very much for the official line. It would be nice if all the enhancements worked both offensively and defensively. What does a Steel Spur do on a sword? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, May 24 2005 15:47
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Well, I'd be impressed if anyone can do it even with Daze, but I guess I'd also call that a 'lite' version, because my original idea was that the only offense of any kind should be ornk tusks and shaper fists. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, May 24 2005 12:43
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I'll concede manifestly corrupt regimes, though I sort of meant them to be excluded from 'industrialized democracies'. I had in mind Europe, the UK, Canada. And what is the situation in Japan? -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, May 24 2005 12:15
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Apart from the US, most industrialized democracies have such strict campaign finance laws that corporations cannot really own politicians. Corporate plutocracy is basically an American problem, not a world problem (except insofar as any major American problem is a world problem ex officio). The problem with the US is that telling people that they can't spend their own money how they want is tyranny. The US has never had much time for tyranny, even though by now it's clear that sometimes a little tyranny is a good thing. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Challenge: spiced ham in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, May 24 2005 12:06
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In truth the rocks are there because I felt that 'rocks, ornks, and incredible tactical sophistication' had a nicer ring than the same line without the rocks. It serves to emphasize the ridiculous nature of the task, that the only item you can carry is completely useless. In case anyone wonders, this challenge is meant half as a joke and half seriously. I sat down to invent a ridiculous task as a parody of iron man challenges, then realized that it might just conceivably be doable, if you were really cunning and persistent. I have no intentions of trying it myself unless someone else reports victory first. If anyone really manages it, they will be totally frosty. Does a bare hands attack do any damage at all? When I composed this I thought it did. Using only rocks and ornks was meant to imply that you couldn't use any spells, or at least not any offensive spells, but for some reason I had in mind that bare hands attacks would be okay. The goal is to do the actual Monastery Caves without cheating, but it doesn't matter how you get your character and your ornks up to that point. I would consider it kosher to use exitzone or dbugkill all the way to Khor's Deep to get the ornk canister, then go back and fight around Greenwood with your ornks in order to evolve them up. There are no serviles in the Monastery Caves. You don't have to clear the Monastery of Tears the hard way to do the spiced ham challenge. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Challenge: spiced ham in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, May 24 2005 07:00
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Allowing sticks can be the 'lite' version. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Parry not so nerfed? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 19:29
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But Dexterity costs so much more ... -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 19:10
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Take any character you want. Only equipment: rocks. Only creations: ornks. Clear the Monastery Caves using nothing but ornks, rocks, and incredible tactical sophistication. How else did you think they'd choose the next Ornk Lord? Ballots and white smoke? [ Tuesday, May 24, 2005 16:33: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Two Years and Two Days! in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 19:01
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I hope no-one is reading this post with a Blackberry. Some things I never signed up for. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Undead Topics Need Loving Too (aka "Give Me Your First-Born") in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 18:57
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Hey, my daughter is a dependent person without a dependent person, because her stuffed animals don't need to eat. So why not a dependent clause without a dependent clause? -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Woah Crazy!! in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 18:50
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I'm sorry, I'm just getting carried away with the ghastly vision of restaurants where every table has a little bowl of packs of lard that are outwardly similar to packets of sugar. Kind of what northerners have always suspected about southern cuisine. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Parry not so nerfed? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 18:41
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Well, duh. Finally I actually looked at what Parry in G3 is supposed to do, and it says it reduces the damage you take in melee, and at high levels gives you a chance to block it completely. So the total blocking effect, with its nice 'ka-ching!' sound, happens about as often now as a riposte did in G2. There is no riposting in G3. Instead there seems to be a sort of 'resist melee' effect that lowers all your hand-to-hand damage. And I think this is not so bad. My Guardian with the high Parry was taking a lot less damage than Alwan from hand-to-hand opponents, even back when he had the Crystalline Shroud and not much armor. Parry still isn't the game-breaker it was in G2, and it definitely isn't worth going all out to start the game with Parry of 10. But it's not just a waste; it may even be worth what it costs. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Who's strongest in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 18:32
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The poll is a choice among creatures that may join your party at different points in the game. Sharon's creations are very nasty. They may separate you, but they won't join you. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Who's strongest in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 18:32
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The poll is a choice among creatures that may join your party at different points in the game. Sharon's creations are very nasty. They may separate you, but they won't join you. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Which Faction Has The Powa? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 18:28
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The Loyalists are so lame. As far as I can tell joining the Loyalists is simply a mistake, the error of deciding your path too soon. Their so-called Loyalism is really just an effort to save Zakary's neck, which is a hopeless task anyway. The true Shaper loyalist path is the non-aligned route of killing everyone but the Awakened (who are optional), including Zakary. The other three sects are all more or less fine. There are enough canisters around that you won't really miss not being able to buy two levels of the top tier creations from the Awakened. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Which Faction Has The Powa? in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 18:28
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The Loyalists are so lame. As far as I can tell joining the Loyalists is simply a mistake, the error of deciding your path too soon. Their so-called Loyalism is really just an effort to save Zakary's neck, which is a hopeless task anyway. The true Shaper loyalist path is the non-aligned route of killing everyone but the Awakened (who are optional), including Zakary. The other three sects are all more or less fine. There are enough canisters around that you won't really miss not being able to buy two levels of the top tier creations from the Awakened. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Vezzedra help? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 16:47
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For the sprayers use combat mode, and try speed pods and/or run away a bit between deactivations. Or take the other, southern route through the valley of Cryoas. Vlish are excellent; they're not too bad even hand-to-hand, but their ranged attack is very nice. A single Vlish may be disappointing because it may not kill things in a single shot, but six of them work great ganging up from long range. Heal them up as they get hurt and they'll fight well for you. Clawbugs might be fine; I've never really tried them much. They hassle of having to close with the enemy, compared to the convenience of long-range blasting with Vlish, has never seemed worthwhile to me. Too often, closing with one enemy exposes you to attacks from a more distant ranged enemy, that would have stayed out of the fight if you had engaged the first enemy from range yourself. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 16:47
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For the sprayers use combat mode, and try speed pods and/or run away a bit between deactivations. Or take the other, southern route through the valley of Cryoas. Vlish are excellent; they're not too bad even hand-to-hand, but their ranged attack is very nice. A single Vlish may be disappointing because it may not kill things in a single shot, but six of them work great ganging up from long range. Heal them up as they get hurt and they'll fight well for you. Clawbugs might be fine; I've never really tried them much. They hassle of having to close with the enemy, compared to the convenience of long-range blasting with Vlish, has never seemed worthwhile to me. Too often, closing with one enemy exposes you to attacks from a more distant ranged enemy, that would have stayed out of the fight if you had engaged the first enemy from range yourself. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Capitalism ho! in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 16:38
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Since gold isn't really any more intrinsically valuable than pretty bits of paper, the gold standard wasn't fundamentally different from the current system of fiat money. Except in one way: for a brief period around the end of the 19th century, all the industrialized countries effectively had a common currency, because they were all on the gold standard. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Woah Crazy!! in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 16:34
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quote:Well, yeah, these days a lot of those places do offer noticeably thinner packets of 'Grease 'n' Lo' along with the packs of lard. But the folks that are just grabbing eight or ten of those at a time, are they really doing themselves such a favor? What's in those little pink packets, anyway, that have so almost-but-not-quite the same squishiness as actual packs of lard? Is the stuff carcinogenic? I say, if you want the taste of lard, then use the real packs of lard, but stop at one or two. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Which Faction Has The Powa? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 16:13
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Well, to get all the Barzite-only canisters you have to do all but the final Barzite quest, so you will effectively have been a Barzite most of the way. At that point if you really wanted to powergame you could convert through Learned Darian instead of a cheat code; but there would really be very little point. You would get a few more experience points from the earlier Taker quests, but if you want a few extra hundred points that badly, it will be more fun at that stage to run naked through Inner Gazak-Uss than to do some trivial Taker missions. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Which Faction Has The Powa? in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 16:13
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Well, to get all the Barzite-only canisters you have to do all but the final Barzite quest, so you will effectively have been a Barzite most of the way. At that point if you really wanted to powergame you could convert through Learned Darian instead of a cheat code; but there would really be very little point. You would get a few more experience points from the earlier Taker quests, but if you want a few extra hundred points that badly, it will be more fun at that stage to run naked through Inner Gazak-Uss than to do some trivial Taker missions. -------------------- It is not enough to discover how things seem to seem. We must discover how things really seem. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Vezzedra help? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, May 23 2005 15:59
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No, that's not the one you want, since I don't believe it gives you any experience points. It will get you through the game and let you see some of the geography, if not the story, but it won't let you get stronger and beat things. If you hit shift-D, a command line box pops up. You can enter "Iwanttobestronger" and it will give you more experience. Repeat a few times, pumping Intelligence and maybe Magic Shaping, then make at least four decent creations (Vlish are great at this stage). Finish off ol' Vezzedra, then head south through Clawbug Canyon from the Road to Medab, and see how it goes. [ Monday, May 23, 2005 16:00: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |