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Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, February 6 2006 13:55 Profile #42
In 1814 we took a little trip
Along with General Custer down the mighty Mississip'.
We took a little bacon and we took a little spam,
And in less than sixty seconds we delivered back a ham.

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New A4 bugs in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, February 6 2006 03:24 Profile #0
New chitrachs are great. Their leaner, greener build seems to suit them more as swarming, proliferating insects, than the heavier clawbug chassis, which was manufactured by shapers for combat. Plus they're just different.

Thanks to Croikle for making them, and Jeff for taking them.

Is there anything else that really calls out to be un-geneforged, now? I don't really mind the roamers as hellhounds, since they look the part pretty well. I wouldn't want them to look too much like dogs, because they you'd have to ask, why does a demonic quadruped from some nether world have to look like a dog? But they're just doglike enough that you can see why someone might have called them 'hellhounds'.

Actually, one thing I'd like to see: I think Divine Retribution should use the 'reaper effect' graphic instead of the Aura of Flames. Maybe Arcane Blow could get a better graphic too.

[ Monday, February 06, 2006 03:26: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ]

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In Glory I Am Returned in General
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, February 6 2006 01:27 Profile #31
quote:
Originally written by Belisarius:

Belisarius was invincible; he died never having known defeat on the battlefield, a feat precious few men known to history can equal - and his relative obscurity owes to an unfortunate hostility of Enlightenment scholarship towards the later Roman Empire more than anything else.

Custer was a mediocre general who died in a politically expedient way. And also a flamboyant dandy.
This was pretty much my take as well. So the reincarnation seems to be an upgrade, and all's well as ends better. Welcome back.

EDIT: For all we know, Belisarius was also a flamboyant dandy. It's not an uncommon condition among generals. And I'm pretty unimpressed with Procopius. His authority as a source would seem to rest entirely on the fact that he's the only game in town.

EDIT 2: Actually I think most human beings, even among the few known to history, have died without knowing defeat on the battlefield.

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Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, February 6 2006 01:20 Profile #32
quote:
Originally written by Prometheus:

I know what you mean. Being a member of the race, sex and class of power and wealth is a rainy cloud over my shoulders too.
So was Lenin, right? So there's always hope.

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In Glory I Am Returned in General
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Sunday, February 5 2006 14:35 Profile #17
So how does Belisarius compare to Custer? The dead generals, I mean.

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Birthday! in General
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Saturday, February 4 2006 14:00 Profile #22
quote:
Originally written by Note to Self:

quote:
Originally written by Prometheus:

Because you're a small-minded, caucasoid suburbanite, who is willing to marginalize whole segments of humanity in order to justify the moral viability of his race in general and his family in specific to have disproportionately more wealth than most people in the world could ever dream of.
So how do you help those segments of humanity? The ones who cannot dream of wealth?
Well, evidently you can start with message board rants at 14 year olds.

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Sudden Ending in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Saturday, February 4 2006 12:14 Profile #29
Jeff's point should be well taken; but TM's too. Is there any chance that difficulty setting could be made to do more than just pump hit points and damage? So for instance could bosses run drastically different scripts on Torment than on Easy?

I don't see why not. Surely the only difficulty would lie in coming up with the multiple scripts. But this would satisfy more players, and also provide more replay value, since people would be motivated to see different battles.

And it seems to me that even just pumping damage and hit points could be made to have a bigger effect than merely dragging out battles longer. Suppose the party picks up a superwand with very short range. On Easy, you just have to get in close, fire your wand, and Bam: you threw the ring into the volcano, the Dark Lord is dead, cue the ending text. On Torment, you get in close, fire your wand, and Bam: you scorched his beard, the Dark Lord is going medieval, think of Plan B.

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Sudden Ending in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Friday, February 3 2006 08:17 Profile #18
Hmm. Dorikas kept surprising me, so I really got worried, but with Rentar-Ihrno I just kind of hung on, fended off her small army, and kept hitting her, and eventually it was over. So it was a straightforward fight, in the end; but I found it tense as it was happening.

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Journal is useless! in Geneforge Series
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Thursday, February 2 2006 06:45 Profile #6
What I find painful is that you can't quickly scroll through the Journal, but have to laboriously click down. So if I record too much, I know it will be too much trouble to find anything. Hence I hardly record anything, and never end up needing anything I have recorded. Hence I have no real use for the Journal.

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Save this forum! in SubTerra
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Wednesday, February 1 2006 00:11 Profile #86
Well, but then you have to realize that some Intuitive people are masochis
90ß8iölm Hey!

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Phew! That was close!

EDIT: I thought about double-posting to explain this post, since that would be safer, but things seem to have settled down for the moment, and if I creep up here carefully I can kind of survey the damage. It's appalling.

Just as I was posting a response to a wonderfully insightful series of thoughts, an enormous crevice opened between the posts. I only escaped by frantically putting spoiler space between me and the approaching edge. Ash's post from a couple days ago, and mine, seem to be the closest survivors.

At least three great posts plummeted into the void as I watched, helpless. One of them -- I think it was Aran's -- tried to claw its way out by shoving down some worthless spam, but then they all fell.

I've just scrolled up to the top of this post, and peeked over. It's so far down I can't really make anything out, but I think I see an em-dash caught on a clump of undisplayable vowels. Folks, those posts aren't going to be recoverable.

I knew the risks, and I really shouldn't have come back here. Wow, will I know better next time. These kinds of things shake you up, when they happen up close.

This forum is dangerously unstable. Post at your own risk!

[ Wednesday, February 01, 2006 00:21: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ]

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Let this forum die in SubTerra
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Wednesday, February 1 2006 00:09 Profile #3
HEY, GENERAL 'OOPS!' THREAD:
THERE ARE AT LEAST TWO BULLETS IN IT.

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Oops in General
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Wednesday, February 1 2006 00:08 Profile #84
Far below this forum is a library. This thread should go check it out.

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Upgrade in the implants in Richard White Games
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Tuesday, January 31 2006 10:40 Profile #21
You should really have talked them down to an &%>. I got mine for a mere unnameable trowel, and a player to be named later. But they were floor models.

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Oops in General
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Tuesday, January 31 2006 02:25 Profile #62
One time a cat ran over my car.

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Helping Jeff advertise in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, January 30 2006 23:54 Profile #88
Apropos of the last, is DROD: Journey to Rooted Hold worth registering?

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Oops in General
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, January 30 2006 14:07 Profile #47
Hey, welcome back!

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What is the best: GF1, GF2 or GF3? / What I must buy now? in Geneforge Series
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, January 30 2006 14:05 Profile #3
G1 is marginally the best in my opinion, but I like all 3. I still think you should get G1 next, since then you'll get an idea where it all came from. Be warned that the engine is a fair bit simpler than in G3 -- for instance, no trapdoors -- and there are no Drakons, Gazers, or Rotghroths. But the story just works better than in either sequel.

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Abandon the buffer state in Richard White Games
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, January 30 2006 12:07 Profile #0
There has been a change of party line. Or so it will have seemed.

All loyal members in any neighboring unstable forums are now encouraged to leave before the situation deteriorates further. Already nasty crevices are opening between topics, and we are getting reports of corrupted signatures. Waves of multiple posts can't be too far ahead.

Don't leave it too late to leave.

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Let this forum die in SubTerra
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, January 30 2006 12:01 Profile #0
On the other hand, it's pretty pointless. People are wasting precious moments of consciousness typing worthless posts into this moribund message board. And by keeping the forum open, we're just enabling them. It's time to remark loudly that the revolver in the desk drawer is kept loaded, and leave the SubTerra Forum alone in the library. I'm sure it will know how to do the right thing.

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Oops in General
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Monday, January 30 2006 11:50 Profile #45
I was gone for TEN THOUSAND YEARS!

Now I have returned and the world shall know my wrath!

Oh, wait, maybe that wasn't me.

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Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Sunday, January 29 2006 04:08 Profile #73
Wait, this is actually intriguing. What was so incredibly hard about that level? Was it actually possible? I mean, depending on what you do, it can be no achievement at all to make something very difficult.

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Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Saturday, January 28 2006 14:32 Profile #59
Naw, Drakeye is going to make the last post just before pulling the trigger. You watch.

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Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Saturday, January 28 2006 09:47 Profile #52
Who will have the honor of making the last post?

How will anyone know, afterward?

Perhaps the administrator responsible could move that last post into a neighboring forum, in order to preserve the record.

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Upgrade in the implants in Richard White Games
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Saturday, January 28 2006 09:45 Profile #10
Perhaps you have the stealth implant upgrade -- the one that is undetectable to the implanted person? It's very popular these days. Popular among the mysterious hierarchs who actually distribute the implants, that is. Among us lowly imponderable archons and the like, popularity is irrelevant, since we know nothing either way.

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What will come after Avernum4 for Windows? in General
Student of Trinity
Electric Sheep One
Member # 3431
 written Saturday, January 28 2006 09:37 Profile #36
Sure, I think it can work. Up to a point I think it's even likely to work, in the sense that with decent execution the results will probably be better than decent. Conversely, if you squint right you can probably analyze almost anything that seems really creative as an original mixture of pre-existing good things.

Re cancerous diplomat fantasy:
For some reason the given description did make me think of The Curse of Chalion, but I don't think that's actually an accurate description of the book. Perhaps my memory is bad, but I didn't think the affliction in question was ever diagnosed as cancer in the book, though it certainly sounded like it to the reader; and I don't think it played any role in keeping the character honest. If you ask me, the originality of the Chalion series is theological. The gods are very important in that world, and they are serious gods, rather than just notional big-black-and-white-hats, as is usually the case, or gothic spooks, as is pretty much the only alternative.

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