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Looking for similar games. in General
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Saturday, January 7 2006 00:48 Profile #22 Anyone know if they're ever going to port Aurora to Mac? That is, NWN exists for Mac (with some perverse pricing issues that you can dodge, legally I believe, with some ingenuity), but the level editor doesn't. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Like Anyone Cares... in Richard White Games
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Saturday, January 7 2006 00:42 Profile #30 I've been trying to dig up a quote that I have in a book at home. I can't seem to find it on the internet. It's that good one by one of the Old Bolsheviks, about seeing black as white if the Party so decrees. The one that sounds way too Orwellian to be true, because it's the one that inspired Orwell. Can anyone find it? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Moral dilemmas in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Friday, January 6 2006 15:56 Profile #10 quote: Originally written by Thuryl: Fear not; those are bandits disguised as adventurers. You even get a quest to report their location to an agent in Mertis. That's what I thought, until just recently I trashed those adventurers, then went to collect my reward and it wasn't forthcoming. I completed that quest only by finding the serious bandit stronghold in the far SW of the Honeycomb. Which is more what the quest described, anyway, than just four dudes in a tunnel junction. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Avernum:4 vs Blades Of Avernum which is the best? in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Friday, January 6 2006 10:55 Profile #53 At what point does the original topic become a tangent? Does it retain some privileged status, compared to other tangents? If so, for how long? I say, three posts and you're toast. Bringing up the original topic again is okay if you apologize for it. Otherwise, going off topic is forbidden, unless it succeeds enough to spawn a new topic. He who strikes at a king must strike to kill! -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Moral dilemmas in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Friday, January 6 2006 10:47 Profile #3 Plus that rival party of adventurers in the Honeycomb: presumably they just go unconscious and get revived in some town. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
A4 Demo in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Thursday, January 5 2006 09:50 Profile #33 I think it's one of those things that if you gotta ask, you ain't never gonna know. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
A4 Demo in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Thursday, January 5 2006 04:34 Profile #28 The difference is that Alorael has a dipthong, and the other has only a normal one. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
The Enduring Priest-Tank in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Thursday, January 5 2006 02:02 Profile #14 Prismatic Shield claims to protect from freezing solid (though this protection seems to be partial at best: I've had PS'd characters get frozen). Does AS do this too? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Oh come on! in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Thursday, January 5 2006 01:56 Profile #5 I suppose it may have problems, but it's a step in the right direction: you can't just waltz through a crowded battlefield. So your fighters can protect your mages against melee attacks without having to form a solid wall. What's fun in the other direction (that is, greater battlefield waltzability) is using the ability of party members to switch places to perform withdrawals under fire. Your hasted mage can step up and fire both barrels at the enemy; then on the next round, your quick nephil fighter can shuffle the mage back out of range, by dancing around and through them a couple of times. Teamwork, yay. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Mertis Spiral in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 15:34 Profile #5 Well, that would have been convenient. Meh. But from the description of how the cauldron things kind of regenerate constantly, it isn't so crazy to imagine that acid is the one thing that can harm them. It is perhaps a problem though, how acid is the universal solvent in A4. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
To keep or not to keep. in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 15:31 Profile #7 Surely Eyebeast eyestalks don't count as mundane items even in Avernum. "Dang, out of toothpicks again. Honey, can you remember on your way home from work ..." -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Avernum:4 vs Blades Of Avernum which is the best? in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 15:22 Profile #34 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: quote: Originally written by Student of Trinity: Only that it's a real factor, which has to be taken seriously in spelling reform, that mastery of English's bizarre spelling is currently used as a cue to the education level, and even the intelligence, of the writer. People still mishear sounds, though. Even if English were perfectly phonetic, with a one-to-one correspondence between a phoneme and a letter, uneducated people would still mis-spell things because they pronounce them incorrectly (because they've misheard them from youth). Even if one were to assume that spelling is useful in this way, which I think is probably a flawed assumption, I don't think this argument works. Mai point izn't that it shud bee this wae if wee wur criaeting an aidial languidge, onlee that it kurintlee iz this wae with Inglish. Okay, that's enough of that. Reform the spelling, and people who adopt the reformed spelling will initially look stupid in print. The effect is quite real, even when you know full well that the bizarre spelling is supposed to be the new correct spelling. This is a serious barrier to adoption. It might be possible to overcome this barrier by implementing the reform with glacial slowness, so that the degree of apparent stupidity was always small. But folks who want to fix spelling generally want to do so within one lifetime, and that might not be slow enough. Perhaps the global community of second-language English speakers might gang up to impose spelling reform on international English. Then native speakers might eventually switch over to the international forms. [ Wednesday, January 04, 2006 15:27: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Avernum:4 vs Blades Of Avernum which is the best? in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 12:42 Profile #29 The strongest argument I've seen against English spelling reform is a paragraph explaining the 20-year scheme proposed by G.B. Shaw. As soon as it has explained an orthographic change, the explanation implements it from then on. The result is that the paragraph appears to degenerate steadily into gross illiteracy. I'm not saying this argument is strong enough to convince. Only that it's a real factor, which has to be taken seriously in spelling reform, that mastery of English's bizarre spelling is currently used as a cue to the education level, and even the intelligence, of the writer. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Nephilim Mystery BUG in Blades of Avernum
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 12:19 Profile #16 Ahah! One of the uses of elevated register. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Avernum:4 vs Blades Of Avernum which is the best? in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 12:04 Profile #27 quote: Originally written by Kelandon: I don't think so much that we've lost the ability to express things as that we've chosen not to express them anymore. For want of things to express, or by self-censorship? quote: [P]eople ... stopped reading good writing. One thing language change definitely can do is cut people off from past ideas. That's a shame, but on the other hand, translation can save most of the content. And although the poetry does get lost, language change generates new poetry. If Latin had never died, we would all still quote Virgil, but we'd have no Shakespeare. quote: [T]hey're choosing to say things in the most simplistic ways possible. Well, simplistic is bad, but simple is good. I'm actually a fan of saying things as simply as possible. I think this makes for the best, most classic English prose style. (How do you like Hemingway? Or Conrad?) And it is necessary for English's new role as the global lingua franca. quote: It's hard to explain why it's nice to be able to use an elevated register of diction, but I can't shake the feeling that it is nice. Here I'm afraid I have to agree, but I'm not sure why either. It is good that you introduce the concept of register, because the original topic was not really language change but register loss. ("Register" means style of speaking: "Four score and seven years ago" and "a good while back" differ in register.) I keep wanting to say that mastery of archaic or 'elevated' registers shouldn't matter, but then, I happen to have it. If I didn't, I bet I would feel its lack; if it were taken away, I'd feel maimed. The fact is that from an educated audience you can command attention, and even a fair amount of respect, just by executing a few linguistic triple-lutzes in your prose. Doing this always feels like a bug exploit, but it sure comes in handy at times. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Mertis Spiral in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 11:38 Profile #2 Ya know, both times now I have just acid sprayed my way through all those cauldron things, and solved the undead problem myself, before tracking down Sleater. Anyone mind telling me what happens if you find him first? He neutralizes the cauldron spawn, or something? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
'Real' Area spells in Avernum 4? in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 11:27 Profile #7 If you've seen Aura of Flames in Geneforge II or III, you've seen Divine Retribution in Avernum IV. I think it would've been nicer to use the Reaper graphic effect for it, though. The Aura of Flames effect always looks to me as though you're out to singe all hairpieces within range, rather than actually hurt anyone. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Avernum:4 vs Blades Of Avernum which is the best? in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 11:21 Profile #23 On the whole I doubt the Whorf-Sapir thesis that language constrains thought. If people have good ideas, they will find ways to express them. It may be that people are becoming sloppier in their thinking, but if so, poor use of language is surely a symptom rather than a cause. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Nephil sighting in General
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 05:28 Profile #28 Since there's no Pope outside the Catholic Church, and no prophetic President outside the Latter Day Saints, there is no authority to say what is or is not Christian. But, doctrinally speaking, Mormonism differs very much more from all mainstream Christian denominations than any of them differ from each other. I believe that the LDS Church officially agrees that this is so. So my own classification sense finds it much more reasonable to call Mormonism a totally different religion that happens to use many terms and names that also appear in Christianity. In fact, there is a pretty close parallel between the Mormonism:Christianity relationship and the Christianity:Judaism one. Including, of course, claims by the historically younger religion that it is the divinely authorized replacement of the older one. Thus, many Mormons do profess to be Christians, but this claim is not widely accepted by non-Mormons. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
First aid, uh, high score in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 03:54 Profile #3 Take two Plated Chitrachs, and call me in the morning. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
To keep or not to keep. in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Wednesday, January 4 2006 03:48 Profile #2 I don't believe emeralds or rubies really need to be saved, either. There are a couple of things you can do with them late in the game, but nothing very important, IIRC. If you want to save time later, you might consider picking up one of every mundane non-perishable item you come across, and stacking them up near some pylon. You only need a few of them for quests, of course, so perhaps you'd prefer a spoiler for these. I mean, how badly can a quest for towels and tongs really be 'spoiled'? -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Avernum:4 vs Blades Of Avernum which is the best? in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Tuesday, January 3 2006 05:38 Profile #7 About replay value: it's true your motivation to replay A4 will probably fade after 2 or 3 times through. But it's so doggone long, this still should count as an awful lot of playing. And you can actually get more motivated to try again than you expected, just because the thing is so long that by the time you finish it, you've probably forgotten most of the beginning stuff. I'm enjoying my second game because on Torment instead of Normal difficulty a lot of stuff is so much harder it ends up feeling quite different. And I have the idea of trying at least one more game, to see if I can make it with a singleton. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Reptile Island (spoilers) in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Monday, January 2 2006 16:49 Profile #16 That's my problem -- there must be a Starbucks in Silvar, because the Shade just won't leave. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Postaroni, Pizzabella! in General
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Monday, January 2 2006 16:28 Profile #27 I repeat my proposal that Alorael be given a custom title consisting of the empty string. To me this seems the only solution. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00
Honeycomb Maps (spoilers) in Avernum 4
Student of Trinity Electric Sheep One Member # 3431	written Monday, January 2 2006 16:20 Profile #0 These maps are just screen captures of the game map, patched together (using Keynote, of all things, and another screen capture), then tidied up a bit. The blue and red dots are my party and a few nervous wolves, of course. The letters mark the stairs, so that the two levels can be synced. [ Monday, January 02, 2006 16:22: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- Listen carefully because some of your options may have changed. Posts: 3335 \| Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00

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