Profile for Student of Trinity
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| Displayed name | Student of Trinity |
| Member number | 3431 |
| Title | Electric Sheep One |
| Postcount | 3335 |
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| Registered | Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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| desperate for GF3 in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, March 4 2005 08:20
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For that reason if for no other, a home schooled Ph.D. is not widely respected in today's job market. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| desperate for GF3 in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, March 4 2005 08:20
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For that reason if for no other, a home schooled Ph.D. is not widely respected in today's job market. -------------------- 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 |
| Travel between islands in GF3 in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, March 2 2005 06:48
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Okay, the 'Shaper boat-creature' is the clear favorite. I'll be so disappointed if we don't get one. The plain old boat and the bridge are surprisingly popular. Presumably people expect the game to take a while to really heat up, so that the first crossing or two will be mundane. It is widely expected that there will be a magic gateway at some point, even though anything like that would be quite a novelty for Geneforge magic. Flight is considered unlikely, perhaps because it is difficult to imagine a plausible rationale for restricting a player's flying ability to just the necessary hop between islands. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, March 2 2005 06:48
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Okay, the 'Shaper boat-creature' is the clear favorite. I'll be so disappointed if we don't get one. The plain old boat and the bridge are surprisingly popular. Presumably people expect the game to take a while to really heat up, so that the first crossing or two will be mundane. It is widely expected that there will be a magic gateway at some point, even though anything like that would be quite a novelty for Geneforge magic. Flight is considered unlikely, perhaps because it is difficult to imagine a plausible rationale for restricting a player's flying ability to just the necessary hop between islands. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Travel between islands in GF3 in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
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written Wednesday, March 2 2005 06:48
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Okay, the 'Shaper boat-creature' is the clear favorite. I'll be so disappointed if we don't get one. The plain old boat and the bridge are surprisingly popular. Presumably people expect the game to take a while to really heat up, so that the first crossing or two will be mundane. It is widely expected that there will be a magic gateway at some point, even though anything like that would be quite a novelty for Geneforge magic. Flight is considered unlikely, perhaps because it is difficult to imagine a plausible rationale for restricting a player's flying ability to just the necessary hop between islands. -------------------- 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 |
| playing a guardian? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, March 2 2005 06:33
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Well, it could be that the 'killer app' for Guardians is just to be the easy class for beginners to get started with. What I think I'd like better, though, would be for Guardians to have a special affinity for Battle creations. I always tend to avoid those as a Shaper, so if Guardians used them really well it would make the game quite a bit different: manoeuvring your troops into close contact would be a major feature unique to the Guardian game. Agents definitely work well as singletons, in both GFs. I've never really thought about trying them other ways, because other strategies would make them more like Shapers or Guardians, and I like them to be different. What might be interesting, though, is to try a Shaper that is a bit Agent-like: accept a somewhat weaker creation army, but have high enough Battle Magic to give them good fire support. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| playing a guardian? in Geneforge | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, March 2 2005 06:33
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Well, it could be that the 'killer app' for Guardians is just to be the easy class for beginners to get started with. What I think I'd like better, though, would be for Guardians to have a special affinity for Battle creations. I always tend to avoid those as a Shaper, so if Guardians used them really well it would make the game quite a bit different: manoeuvring your troops into close contact would be a major feature unique to the Guardian game. Agents definitely work well as singletons, in both GFs. I've never really thought about trying them other ways, because other strategies would make them more like Shapers or Guardians, and I like them to be different. What might be interesting, though, is to try a Shaper that is a bit Agent-like: accept a somewhat weaker creation army, but have high enough Battle Magic to give them good fire support. -------------------- 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 of these is worth playing? in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, February 24 2005 09:25
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My only aspiration is to the status of Interloper. That is my dream. Someday, when I am retired and have enough time to accumulate my own millions of excellent postings, some moderator somewhere will bestow on me that ultimate title, which sounds so cool and means so little and thus represents itself so perfectly. Yes, when my Nobel medal is gathering dust in a sock drawer, 'Interloper' will appear one morning under my moniker and bring tears to my baggy old eyes. Till then, I will remain an intermittent lurker who counts himself lucky to have risen to citizenship in this exalted company of slacker aristocracy. Ladies and gentlemen; thrones, dominations; and all those gender-neutral second persons: I salute you. [Exit, tripping over his scabbard] -------------------- 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 Thursday, February 24 2005 09:02
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Hmmm. I still have the feeling that Guardians are unstable against morphing into burlier Shapers or Agents. That is, either they outstrip creations and become lone warriors that rely on speed like Agents, or else they look after a squad of creations like a Shaper, without doing much fighting themselves. What I feel is missing is a 'killer app' for Guardians -- an effective basic tactic that they can do, that the other two classes cannot do. -------------------- 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 Thursday, February 24 2005 09:02
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Hmmm. I still have the feeling that Guardians are unstable against morphing into burlier Shapers or Agents. That is, either they outstrip creations and become lone warriors that rely on speed like Agents, or else they look after a squad of creations like a Shaper, without doing much fighting themselves. What I feel is missing is a 'killer app' for Guardians -- an effective basic tactic that they can do, that the other two classes cannot do. -------------------- 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 of these is worth playing? in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 07:19
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In the spirit of the old GC forum: Well, in one of its less ghastly spirits, anyway: Shouldn't the title be 'His Postliness' or 'Her Postliness', not 'Your Postliness'? One may address such august beings as 'Your Postliness', but surely they should be referred to in the third person? Edit: Ah, just now it changed. But, if it ever comes back? [ Wednesday, February 23, 2005 07:20: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- 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 Wednesday, February 23 2005 07:07
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Actually I read somewhere that Howard took a bodybuilding course that turned him into a big guy in real life, so maybe he wasn't such a wimp. I'm also hoping The Briar King series goes better. Hagia Sophia really is pretty impressive from inside. It's such a vast space. I think it would become a famous building if it were built today; and to think it was built in, what, 550 or something? Once I'd been there I suddenly understood why all those medieval Europeans had been so in awe of their classical forebears. Western Europe couldn't dream of doing anything close to it for about a thousand years. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Travel between islands in GF3 in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 07:07
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Actually I read somewhere that Howard took a bodybuilding course that turned him into a big guy in real life, so maybe he wasn't such a wimp. I'm also hoping The Briar King series goes better. Hagia Sophia really is pretty impressive from inside. It's such a vast space. I think it would become a famous building if it were built today; and to think it was built in, what, 550 or something? Once I'd been there I suddenly understood why all those medieval Europeans had been so in awe of their classical forebears. Western Europe couldn't dream of doing anything close to it for about a thousand years. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Travel between islands in GF3 in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 07:07
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Actually I read somewhere that Howard took a bodybuilding course that turned him into a big guy in real life, so maybe he wasn't such a wimp. I'm also hoping The Briar King series goes better. Hagia Sophia really is pretty impressive from inside. It's such a vast space. I think it would become a famous building if it were built today; and to think it was built in, what, 550 or something? Once I'd been there I suddenly understood why all those medieval Europeans had been so in awe of their classical forebears. Western Europe couldn't dream of doing anything close to it for about a thousand years. -------------------- 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 |
| Need some help... in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 06:55
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Alas, my displayed name doesn't bear any much closer relation to my real identity than most people's. I would like to visit Trinity College, Dublin, some day, for the sake of Stephen Maturin if nothing else. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Need some help... in Geneforge | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, February 23 2005 06:55
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Alas, my displayed name doesn't bear any much closer relation to my real identity than most people's. I would like to visit Trinity College, Dublin, some day, for the sake of Stephen Maturin if nothing else. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, February 23 2005 06:40
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Nice to hear that the 'squad leader' Guardian can indeed be followed through to the endgame. I'll have to try harder next time. But I really don't know about Agents keeping creations. It costs so many skill points, and so much essence, that are both better used elsewhere. And anyway much of the fun of playing an Agent is that you don't have to worry about looking after pets. -------------------- 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 Wednesday, February 23 2005 06:40
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Nice to hear that the 'squad leader' Guardian can indeed be followed through to the endgame. I'll have to try harder next time. But I really don't know about Agents keeping creations. It costs so many skill points, and so much essence, that are both better used elsewhere. And anyway much of the fun of playing an Agent is that you don't have to worry about looking after pets. -------------------- 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 |
| pit of the bound in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, February 22 2005 16:27
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Yeah, what is it with The Bound One's extensive grill area? He really likes kabobs? Another symptom of his madness? A necessary alternative entrance for PCs with bad spinecore allergies? I kept thinking that there must be a sneaky way to lure TBO into that area and fry him on his own griddles, since in general there is supposed to be a stealth alternative to most major problems in the game. But I never found a way to do it. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| pit of the bound in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, February 22 2005 16:27
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Yeah, what is it with The Bound One's extensive grill area? He really likes kabobs? Another symptom of his madness? A necessary alternative entrance for PCs with bad spinecore allergies? I kept thinking that there must be a sneaky way to lure TBO into that area and fry him on his own griddles, since in general there is supposed to be a stealth alternative to most major problems in the game. But I never found a way to do it. -------------------- 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 Monday, February 21 2005 15:31
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SF and fantasy are clearly changing: there's money in 'em now. Top flight authors come out in hardcover, and movie deals sometimes happen. I don't know that it's really getting worse, though. I personally read less nowadays because I have less time, but I think good things are still coming along. The old days look better because we only remember the good old things. What does bother me is that publication deals seem to make authors rush series into print too quickly. I've seen several amazingly promising first books lead into banal trilogies, when I'm sure that the author could have kept up their initial standards if they had just taken the time. (Gregory Keyes's Newton's Cannon was tremendous, and A Calculus of Angels was at least a cool title; but the series had gone so far downhill into random weirdness by the third book that I never read book 4.) [Abruptly forces himself back on topic, more or less:] I hope Jeff bears this in mind with the GF series, which he anticipates running for a few more installments after 3. Since he does have Avernum under his belt, let's hope he knows how to pace himself. I at least felt that GF2 was a worthy sequel. -------------------- 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, February 21 2005 15:31
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SF and fantasy are clearly changing: there's money in 'em now. Top flight authors come out in hardcover, and movie deals sometimes happen. I don't know that it's really getting worse, though. I personally read less nowadays because I have less time, but I think good things are still coming along. The old days look better because we only remember the good old things. What does bother me is that publication deals seem to make authors rush series into print too quickly. I've seen several amazingly promising first books lead into banal trilogies, when I'm sure that the author could have kept up their initial standards if they had just taken the time. (Gregory Keyes's Newton's Cannon was tremendous, and A Calculus of Angels was at least a cool title; but the series had gone so far downhill into random weirdness by the third book that I never read book 4.) [Abruptly forces himself back on topic, more or less:] I hope Jeff bears this in mind with the GF series, which he anticipates running for a few more installments after 3. Since he does have Avernum under his belt, let's hope he knows how to pace himself. I at least felt that GF2 was a worthy sequel. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Travel between islands in GF3 in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, February 21 2005 15:31
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SF and fantasy are clearly changing: there's money in 'em now. Top flight authors come out in hardcover, and movie deals sometimes happen. I don't know that it's really getting worse, though. I personally read less nowadays because I have less time, but I think good things are still coming along. The old days look better because we only remember the good old things. What does bother me is that publication deals seem to make authors rush series into print too quickly. I've seen several amazingly promising first books lead into banal trilogies, when I'm sure that the author could have kept up their initial standards if they had just taken the time. (Gregory Keyes's Newton's Cannon was tremendous, and A Calculus of Angels was at least a cool title; but the series had gone so far downhill into random weirdness by the third book that I never read book 4.) [Abruptly forces himself back on topic, more or less:] I hope Jeff bears this in mind with the GF series, which he anticipates running for a few more installments after 3. Since he does have Avernum under his belt, let's hope he knows how to pace himself. I at least felt that GF2 was a worthy sequel. -------------------- 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 |
| Warped Bones Thahd in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, February 20 2005 19:21
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Maybe that farmer killed them? Do their paths ever wander close enough? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Warped Bones Thahd in Geneforge 2 | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, February 20 2005 19:21
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Maybe that farmer killed them? Do their paths ever wander close enough? -------------------- 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 |