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| Member number | 3431 |
| Title | Electric Sheep One |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, November 4 2006 16:27
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Guardians aren't so hot at creations, but the new skill they get in G2 is rather too good. [ Saturday, November 04, 2006 16:28: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Good news! in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, November 4 2006 16:23
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And now instead of just being able to absorb them, you can mix them all into an unbelievable gumbo. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Friday, November 3 2006 13:11
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Uh, G4 is no Oblivion. But yes, as those screenshots indicate, the graphics are souped up some compared to previous Spiderweb games. At this point there are still a few bits that I'm really hoping are placeholders. And there are quite a few decent-looking things. The spell effects are indeed, as the review says, quite good for a shareware game. [ Friday, November 03, 2006 13:11: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The SpiderWebWorld in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, November 3 2006 07:37
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Sure, Kerry's remarks were perfectly understandable. But they are still not a good reflection on him in his line of work. The ideal US politician has to have perfect pitch for these kinds of things, a subconscious instinct for what never to say. It's not at all about what's sensible or smart to say or not say. It's about what might offend a touchy demographic slice, and what might make them warm to you instead. Whatever his other merits, and it seems they are considerable, Kerry definitely does not have this hypertrophic common touch. For all his other faults, and it seems they are considerable, Bush does. [ Friday, November 03, 2006 07:39: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Recipes in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 14:10
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People don't like it when you add a reply to a very old topic, like this one. It makes a long topic suddenly appear among the new ones, and that makes people think it's something incredibly hot, to have picked up so many posts overnight. They eagerly read until they realize they've already read it long before, and this wastes their time and gets them all excited about nothing. So you're supposed to start a new thread. If you really want to refer to the older one, you're supposed to link to it. As to your question, I really can't remember any answer myself, but I can say that the late, great Terror's Martyr hated Geneforge, and was probably not above giving a bogus hint out of mere malice. [ Thursday, November 02, 2006 14:11: 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 Thursday, November 2 2006 08:45
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*grumbles* Why is it always attack at dawn? It is, you know, at least in training. Officers get summoned to orders groups around midnight, and the whole chain of preparations trickles down until the privates get kicked awake around 4 a.m. And everybody stumbles and bumbles around in the dark, before running out and (if it isn't just training, and in this case I wouldn't really know) getting shot at as soon as it gets halfway light. Why not, attack at 11 a.m., and catch the enemy at coffee break? Or at 13:00, and catch them sleepy after lunch? Grrr. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Should Geneforge have been a pure sci-fi game? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 08:38
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Good point. Some of the same issues that face real-world gentech are raised, of course; but the fantasy stuff gives it enough distance that you're not pressured into agreeing or disagreeing with any particular critique. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, November 2 2006 08:34
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Fortunately, with the new forging system you are able combine an eyebeast eye, a perfect drakon eyelash, and a rotdhizon spleen ... into the Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The SpiderWebWorld in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 14:44
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A friend of my brother's when he was a little kid once explained to him that, 'You have to drive fast to get to my house.' Presumably he only meant that a highway was involved, but we all imagined this kid's house permanently zooming along at high speed, which he had to match just to get in the door. And since then I've always liked the idea of living somewhere with not just a position, but a velocity. So I want a volume of phase space for my country. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Abominable Halloween PhotoThread in General | |
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 11:06
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quote:*Decides not to.* -------------------- 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, November 1 2006 09:27
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Mr Dressup was pretty good, as I recall. I heard that in the show's later years, they actually killed Casey. It was a kids' show, a little kids' show. And Casey was a little puppet boy, in an otherwise live action show. He lived in a tiny little treehouse, with a puppet dog named Finnigan. And they had him die somehow. Yeesh. That's some negative capability. EDIT: It appears I was misinformed. According to Wikipedia, they just gradually eased Casey and Finnigan out of the show, so that kids would not have to deal with their sudden departure or change when their longtime puppeteer retired. Sort of thing you have to deal with in a show that runs every weekday for very nearly 30 years. Now I feel a lot better, actually. [ Wednesday, November 01, 2006 09:34: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Abominable Halloween PhotoThread in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 07:54
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A few years ago it was accepted as clever that I made a Halloween costume just by drawing a little zig-zag on my forehead with a marker. But that was before the movies. -------------------- 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, November 1 2006 07:06
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I don't know what the chapter divisions were like before. There are no 'title pages' or anything in G4, but as I think Jeff has said, it is structured as a series of regions separated by barriers that are, for one reason or another, impenetrable, until certain major quests have been accomplished, in one way or another. So the plot does end up having a definite chapter structure. Each chapter is more tightly unified than in previous games, with most zones and most quests fitting somehow into the chapter's major plot. There's still nearly total freedom in how you want to go about things, and quite a few optional quests or places. But I think most players will be conscious of where the story is going most of the time, rather than just wandering around the landscape looking for trouble. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 00:51
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Do skateboarders count as pedestrians? Just where is the line? Is it a matter of locomotion, or of armor? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| That Literary Dog... in General | |
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written Wednesday, November 1 2006 00:49
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Totane? Minime! -------------------- 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, October 31 2006 23:13
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I think a lot of the problem here is that the actual value of large sums of money is not linear. The great scientists of recent history, and the great artists and so on, have generally been perfectly comfortable financially, and have enjoyed a lot of perks that would be worth vast sums if they could be bought. If they had been given Gatesian fortunes, I don't think many of them would have had any interest in the extra billions. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Should Geneforge have been a pure sci-fi game? in Geneforge Series | |
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written Tuesday, October 31 2006 22:57
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I think it could have worked fine, but it would have been a bit less original. The current quirky mix of science and magic, which is vague on technical details but pungeant in flavor, is kind of different from anything else I know. The other science-magic mixtures I know seem to have physics as the dominant science component, and the mixture ends up being very abstract and antiseptic, with alternate planes and invisible mechanisms. Geneforge being a biological fantasy, the magic is all raw and messy, and this is cool. If you like, Geneforge is science fiction, just set in a world where the laws of nature are rather different from what we know. The main difference I imagine it would make, for the game to be really sci-fi, is that everything would have to be a little more rigorously explained and consistent. And that might well be too tough a constraint for good game mechanics. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 31 2006 22:44
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At least as far as I'm concerned, the game lives up to its early promise right through. I had the same enthusiastic reaction to the demo area as this reviewer. After playing the rest of the game, the demo area still seems good, but pretty tame. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 31 2006 16:14
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I dunno how CEOs and all live, but even moderately successful professors get at least upper-middle-class income, with tenure (in some countries) and better than tenure (in others). (Tenured professors can lose their jobs if their whole departments are closed, but in places where professors are civil servants, the whole country would have to close.) They get paid to talk for hours about things they know about and like, while students listen respectfully. They go to conferences in nice places. And they have time, for decades on end, to work on whatever they think might be important. They mostly work pretty long hours, but that's not so bad when most of your work is yours to chose. Professors are essentially self-employed but with job security. It's nice work if you can get it. Rich people might pay a lot to be able to live like this. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Tuesday, October 31 2006 15:57
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I was pretty sure that Zakary didn't really matter; the Shapers would execute him anyway, though they're happy to have you do it for them. But maybe Slarty's right. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Good news! in Geneforge 4: Rebellion | |
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written Tuesday, October 31 2006 15:54
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While we're on the topic of Good News: I finally finished the game, with one of my beta test parties. Jeff is about to receive a report on how some things are broken, but as far as I can tell the end of all the tweaking shouldn't be too far off now. But I don't feel very finished with the game. Not because there's anything wrong with the ending, but because there seem to be so many interestingly and meaningfully different alternative paths that I still haven't explored. Geneforge 4 is a game that has used many canisters. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, October 30 2006 22:11
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This must count as a bug, since killing all those guys should qualify you for the unaligned victory. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, October 30 2006 22:03
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These are the legends of our people. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Fresh meat for the Cultists, or, goodbye sunshine in Richard White Games | |
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written Sunday, October 29 2006 22:20
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Looks like Alorael will not be Panned at this time. But perhaps he could be Tanned, as a warning? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, October 29 2006 15:02
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Canada is technically still a monarchy, and although the constitution was written in 1867 and substantially overhauled in 1982, the form of government it lays down is in some ways rather medieval. The Queen is the executive branch. The constitution of Canada does not mention the office of prime minister, or a cabinet, let alone political parties. It refers only to the Queen's viceregal representative the Governor General, and to a Privy Council whose duty is to advice the Queen, and whose composition is entirely up to her. In the British tradition, how things actually work is determined more by tradition and precedent than by the written constitution. But in principle the Queen (or the Governor General on her behalf) can appoint anyone prime minister. As far as I can see, she could simultaneously appoint two prime ministers, three poo-bahs and a honcho, and listen to all their advice. She can likewise dismiss the prime minister at any time. Only a majority vote in parliament can pass a law (which in principle the Queen could still veto), so a government that cannot regularly command such majorities is impotent. Governors General therefore appoint prime ministers who lead majority parties. But in a case where no party has an outright majority, it is not so implausible that the GG might appoint someone other than the leader of the largest party. If two or more other parties could muster a majority in combination, and seem likely to be able to co-operate enough to govern that way for at least a year or two, one of their leaders might get the nod. Probably only after the largest party had formed a government and lost a confidence motion, though. And even then a new election, perhaps only a few weeks after the last one, would be a more likely alternative. [ Sunday, October 29, 2006 15:44: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |