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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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| What's your dialect? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, March 22 2006 07:28
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Whereas the Prince of Wales' English, spoken by the upper crust in general, is known as 'fraffly', after the way its speakers pronounce the word 'frightfully' (as they so often do). Apparently the goal is to speak without moving any part of the mouth. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Is this possible? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 14:23
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What's so great about Rahul, if he's far from indestructible in melee? This is another one of the aspects of Shaper magic I think Jeff might clarify. It is implied at several points in the game, though rather vaguely, that Rahul can control sizable forces of creations from a great distance. It is also implied in several places that there are actually a great many more creations around, on both sides, than you ever see as a player. So I agree that it is probably Rahul's skill as a general commanding offstage armies that constitutes his main power. If Rahul knew that an operational Geneforge was cranking out Ur-Drakons, he might abandon Dhonal's Isle in favor of an assault on Spears with all his forces, which might well succeed. It is probably this that Akhari Blaze fears. It is also asserted by Shapers in a few places -- I am thinking of an example in G2 -- that even the most rebellious creations have deep instincts to obey sufficiently strong-willed Shapers. There is a surprising hint near the end of G3 that this might indeed be true. So I'm also imagining that Akhari Blaze might fear that Rahul could use his advanced Shaper powers to subvert the first Ur-Drakons, even from a distance. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| A Few Advance Notes On Geneforge 4 in Geneforge Series | |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 14:04
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When last we left our Awakened heroes, in G2, their moral high ground was in a mudslide. Tuldaric's augmentations and mass Drakon enslavement were the sect's only hope for survival, and he was already a good hike down Barzahl's road away from humanity. But that's why I would like to see an Awakened sect return in some form, perhaps along with an 'enlightened Shapers' sect led by someone like Khyryk. Faced with the two extremes of Rebels and Shaper Council, it's natural to seek a middle way; but the problem of shaping's power is not resolved by such good intentions. The middle way is extremely problematic. Being caught in the middle, it has to fight; fighting, it becomes either - or both - of its enemies. Far from being a morally easy 'white hat' option, an Awakened plotline could present the sharpest moral dilemmas of all. And for me it is seeing the limitations of the 'moderate' options, as in G2, that makes the more extreme alternatives in G3 make sense. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| I've made a script / story in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, March 18 2006 01:32
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It's funny how character develops as one writes something like this. A few lines added off the top of your head, and the character who speaks them gets a bit defined. Before you know it, you have someone with a mind of their own. And once a piece of writing reaches a certain threshold of overall effectiveness, everything starts to work almost in spite of itself. For instance, I'm weirdly proud of how my own character in this script exhibits, in just a few lines, such focus on the task: 'Shoot it.' 'Fire arrows until you run out.' 'Throw rocks.' I could learn from this guy. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Monday, March 13 2006 08:07
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Hanging chads. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Posts from beyond the ban? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, March 13 2006 05:01
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At least when I was looking at Argh*'s Recent Posts list, the three 'squatter' posts by other people there were all remarkably similar in style and substance to Argh* at his most Argh*-ish. I was amazed that UBB had somehow found these stray posts such an appropriate home. If the achievement were reproducible, it would be the greatest advance in artificial intelligence since the invention of the bit: an automated filter for noobishness. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, March 12 2006 12:59
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So the three top spots in the dear departed's Recent Posts list were emptied by deletion, and stray posts from other people are now squatting there. And apparently feeling right at home. I guess that's UBB: ridiculous database, awe inspiring pattern recognition engine. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Sunday, March 12 2006 12:28
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I'm afraid I had a ghoulish curiosity about just what Argh* did to finally get banned, so I checked his Recent Posts. Curiously, the three most recent posts on his list occur after the coup de grace, and appear to be from other people channeling him. Board glitch, or paranormal? You must be decide. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| I've made a script / story in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, March 12 2006 11:46
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The overwhelming numbers of these noobs are making me wish I'd been a bit more explicit about which Trinity. [ Sunday, March 12, 2006 11:51: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Classics in General | |
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written Saturday, March 11 2006 08:06
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Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson Doctor Faustus, Thomas Mann The Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy Paradise Lost, John Milton The Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral, T.S. Eliot Kim, Rudyard Kipling Tristram Shandy, Laurence Sterne Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain Go Down, Moses, William Faulkner (story collection, his least depressing work) The Thousand and One Nights, Scheherezade? Youth, Heart of Darkness, Lord Jim, Joseph Conrad The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway I seem to count as 'classic' anything that is both famous and older than 50 years or so. Sort of like with cars, I guess. There are quite a few more recent works that I figure will count as classics in time. [ Saturday, March 11, 2006 08:12: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Rate Galactic Core. (1 Meat/1 ur mom lol) in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, March 10 2006 13:52
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Wow. I feel brushed by fame. I guess now everyone will be famous for fifteen megabytes. I hope some of mine are for something better than early advocacy of bizarre invective. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Worm Ouroboros in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, March 10 2006 11:47
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I hope that The Charwoman's Shadow isn't really Cabell's best book, because although it's very good, it's by Dunsany. I gather from Wikipedia that Jurgen: a Comedy of Justice is probably Cabell's best. It is also available online. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Worm Ouroboros in General | |
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written Thursday, March 9 2006 13:22
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I, uh, forgot to mention that some of the language, and especially the dialogue, is somewhat archaic English. If Shakespeare gives you trouble, this may be tough going. On the other hand, if a lot of the text sounds odd to you, don't worry -- that's how it's supposed to sound. E.R. Eddison is good general fantasy background, since he has to be considered one of the founders of the genre. [ Thursday, March 09, 2006 13:23: 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, March 9 2006 13:16
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quote:Well, you have your revenge. I just shot two good hours of work time on catching up on near-thirty-year-old Wormy comics, which have now been archived on the web (and show up as Google's first 'Wormy' hit). -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Rate Galactic Core. (1 Meat/1 ur mom lol) in Richard White Games | |
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written Thursday, March 9 2006 08:58
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But it has been sold a few times. Speaking of which, where is Icshi? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| A Few Advance Notes On Geneforge 4 in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, March 9 2006 08:56
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Wear an AFDB. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Worm Ouroboros in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Thursday, March 9 2006 08:54
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The Worm Ouroboros seems to be available online in its entirety. I guess its copyright expired, or something. So everyone should go and read it. It dates from 1922 and has many flaws. One should ignore the initial frame narrative about an Earthman dreaming of the planet Mercury, since this concept is quickly forgotten and never mentioned again. It is also a bit disorienting that the nations of this fantasy world are labelled Demons and Witches and Goblins and so forth, when in fact, apart from small horns on the Demons' foreheads, everyone is human. It comfortably transcends all its flaws. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Thursday, March 9 2006 08:25
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Jeff needs to make money, but to do this he needs to stay motivated working on his games. Say what you will about the existence of some repetitious elements in his games, there have been significant new elements in every one. I hypothesize that Jeff would get too bored to keep working on games if he couldn't find new enough wrinkles to add. Jeff has been in business for 12 years, and in that time he has made games set in three different universes. One of the universes is a one-shot game, so far; the others have yielded 7 and 3 games to date. I figure he'll want to add something different in a couple of years. But of course it won't be entirely different; it will build on infrastructure established in other games. -------------------- 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 8 2006 13:23
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If you are worried about brain explosion, you may want to wrap a lot of duct tape around your head. Since you never know when the installation may occur, I'm afraid this would be for the foreseeable future. Some fashion tips are available on this alluminating website. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 8 2006 12:04
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Ha! A Finieous fan! Or? Languages with very polysyllabic words don't necessarily need to be spoken fast; the issue is information per syllable, not syllables per word. I know (from hearing a linguist talk about it) of a natural language in which a single word can express "but because I also went to the really big house." -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The End of Spiderweb in General | |
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written Wednesday, March 8 2006 11:53
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I didn't know loose change hunted in packs. But now that I think of it, I realize that I usually have hardly any change at all, but sometimes suddenly find I have pocketfuls that I have to get rid of. Perhaps today's domesticated change retains some ancient pack instincts. (This is in response to Alorael's signature, whereas the previous post addressed someone else. So it is clearly a permissible double post, and not the awkwardly salvaged mistake of hitting Quote instead of Edit.) [ Wednesday, March 08, 2006 11:56: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Truly Innovative Games in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, March 8 2006 10:55
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Spore: hmmm. Sometimes drastically ramping the scale counts as a whole new idea. Looks like it could be fun ... but really long. And I'm having enough polygamy trouble as it is. -------------------- 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 8 2006 08:33
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Won't they be happy. -------------------- 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 8 2006 08:28
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How about something sci-fi? Exploring a new planet, or an enormous space hulk, or something like that. -------------------- 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, March 7 2006 14:16
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Okay, follow closely. (Jeff abandoned BOE) = (The Shapers abandoned the Geneforge). (RW is an outsider who sojourned in Spiderweb Software for a while.) = (The Sholai are outsiders who encounter the Shapers.) These are two clear parallels, to be accepted as facts. But then we have two reciprocally incomplete parallels: (Jeff abandoned BOE for Avernum, BOA, and Geneforge.) = (We don't really know what the Shapers did instead of pursuing Danette's vision, except sit around being control freaks.) (We don't know why RW dropped out of sight.) = (Trajkov tried to complete the Geneforge, but was destroyed by a loyal Shaper.) Therefore, applying the Conspiracy Theorist's Axiom (also called the Roger Penrose Axiom) that any two mysteries must explain each other, we discover two shocking revelations: 1) The Shaper Council has its own geneforge, enormous underground prison, and isometric game engine. 2) Richard White debugged BOE and was sniped by Alorael to preserve Jeff's secrets. Remember, you read them here first. But 'here' should really be moved to RWG, which should be moved to the bottom of the list of boards. [ Tuesday, March 07, 2006 14:18: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |