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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| Avernum 4? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Tuesday, October 18 2005 00:38
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I'm also beta-testing A4, as a representative Geneforge fan who never got into Avernum before, mainly because of the graphics barrier. In Jeff's market, I think we Geneforged whippersnappers may be important, even though most people on this list seem to be the other way 'round -- old Avernites, or even Exiled, who growl at the whole upstart Shaper world. For what it's worth, though, my own initial reaction is that A4 is indeed quite different in feel from any of the GF series. I won't be posting much here for quite a while, since the betatesting will absorb at least as much time as I can spare. -------------------- 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 Tuesday, October 18 2005 00:24
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The Nobel Prize for Spelling is not coveted. -------------------- 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 |
| how many levels... in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, October 1 2005 05:29
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We should hold an election to select a special title for Alorael, to be granted some time after the Pizzabella thing has grown old. This would not be binding on the adms, any more than the other recent elections were; but it would still be fun. Being even more inconsequential than the General modship, it might generate even more pointless bitterness. This would be even more fun. I propose the candidate " ": a blank title to represent the inadequacy of any title. It's elegant and concise. It's the brashly over-the-top ne plus ultra in understatement: shibui to the max, and you gotta love that. Like poetry, it nothing affirmeth. It satisfies all constraints vacuously. It's a single-character koan. It's the custom title everyone wants, whether they realize it or not, but at most one member deserves it. [ Saturday, October 01, 2005 05:30: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- 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 |
| Jack Vance wizards in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 30 2005 11:28
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Before too long I will realize a long-held dream of being able to assign names to a number of computers in a small network. Since everybody and her dog does Tolkien names, my plan is to do Dying Earth wizards. The first big machine must naturally be Iucounu. I also have in mind to name a machine Maugifer, after Makke the Maugifer. Faucelme is another obvious choice, and Pharesme has some appeal. If one machine stands out for its power, it can perhaps be Phandaal. I welcome further suggestions, or arguments for and against the ones I have mentioned. A desirable quality is having a good quote involving the name. (E.g. for Maugifer: 'Persons could lift their eyes to his countenance once, and with effort twice, but never three times, so great was the force of his maugery.') The printer attached to Iucounu must of course be Sadlark. A little iBook destined to travel far will be Cugel. -------------------- 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 |
| MMMMM in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 30 2005 11:20
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I thought 'virus' was a perfectly normal Latin word meaning 'poison'. The biological term 'virus' was originally short for 'filtrable virus', meaning dangerous stuff whose particles were so small that they passed through filters that could block bacteria. -------------------- 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 |
| Richard White - Proof of time travel in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 30 2005 11:14
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All must read Jack Vance 'Dying Earth' story about Chun the Unavoidable. Fluffy Turtles apparently learned from Herr Chun. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| there is any rewards? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, September 25 2005 11:28
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The rewards of a high post count are actually very impressive. Once I passed 1000 I had to get a new mailbox just to hold the Frequent Poster Reward goodies that started pouring in. It's a good thing the next incentive level is still a fair way away for me, because I'm already starting to use iPods as furniture shims. -------------------- 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 |
| Screenshot from Galatic Core II in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, September 24 2005 22:30
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That is a screenshot of the dialog box image for the new GC2 alien race, the Scruntzi. From the teaser text: 'Although poor at diplomacy, their late-game access to deadly gravitational lens weapons makes them feared opponents.' -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| MMMMM in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 23 2005 06:14
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Gonna work in mummia, or did I miss 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 |
| a new threat in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, September 23 2005 06:09
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Aww, c'mon. This is a grossly unfair characterization of Icshi. He's three-quarters mad at the very least. But maybe the wolverine counts as entirely mad; so, okay. Icshi's posse will not seek revenge. Of course I do not speak for Icshi himself. Just the posse. -------------------- 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, September 22 2005 07:48
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Apparently some people like flagellation. I guess this Bud's for them. On a happier note, though, aren't the flagella of micro-organisms cool? The fluid mechanics alone of the process is remarkable. They're neat little micro-machines. Anyone (and by 'anyone', let's face it, I mean Thuryl) know anything about how they work? [ Thursday, September 22, 2005 07:51: Message edited by: Student of Trinity ] -------------------- 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 Thursday, September 22 2005 02:25
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It also made the plague seem better in comparison. -------------------- 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 |
| shaper/rebel - what's more fun? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 21 2005 23:55
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It won't let you in as a loyalist. Once you leave it as a rebel you can return. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| MMMMM in General | |
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written Wednesday, September 21 2005 23:03
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Let's have another election. At least this one would be decisive. -------------------- 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 |
| shaper/rebel - what's more fun? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 21 2005 23:00
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I feel you get most out of G3 by thinking your way around to the view that there is a lot of merit, as well as a lot of difficulty, in both Rebel and Shaper ideologies; and that there really is no tenable middle ground, at least not in the short term. Whichever side you're on, you're serving something monstrous in the short term, in the hope that things may get better in the long term. The differences between the sides do matter, at least to me, but which one you prefer really depends on how you feel about various features of the shaper world, as well as on how you expect things to go in the future. I can see it both ways, so I like G3 a lot. To get this double vision it helps to play both sides, and if you can get into the stories, this evens out the relative enjoyment. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
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written Wednesday, September 21 2005 22:46
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Capitalism offers choices to the consumer. -------------------- 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 |
| Forum 13 in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 21 2005 22:42
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I know nothing, nothing! -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| a new threat in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 21 2005 20:42
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Phew! What a relief! Now I can go back to chugging black espresso and worrying about the subtle onset of new forums. -------------------- 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, September 21 2005 12:21
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Anybody else remember hearing about this loopster who decided that some portion of your brain, residing behind the middle of your forehead, served no purpose other than making you feel bad? IIRC, he advocated self-administered portion-otomy, with a power drill. II further RC, some folks took him up on it. This would have been twenty to thirty years ago, I'm afraid. -------------------- 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 |
| Forum 13 in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 21 2005 12:15
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What it should be: a 6323-sided figure must be a pretty fargon. An infinite sided figure would then be an allgon. But, sadly, the official term for such an object is 'an irregular 6323-gon'. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| a new threat in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Wednesday, September 21 2005 12:11
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But by drinking the black coffee, do we not symbolically destroy the blackness? Or something? There's gotta be some kind of dispensation available, here. Putting milk in espresso is an abominable crime even by the unspeakable standards of the order. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| a new threat in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, September 18 2005 13:23
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I'm afraid we've missed the boat, friends. The leader/object of the Black Cult must be not Richard Black, but ______ Black, where ______ denotes whatever first name is the opposite of Richard. Few kids get named Anti-richard, so this is not an easy thing to figure out. It's a quest-for-true-name problem reminiscent of Glen Cook's original Black Company trilogy. Doh! -------------------- 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 Friday, September 16 2005 02:29
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*dons pedant hat* E = mc^2 is not about translating matter into energy, but mass into energy. Energy, like mass, is a property. It is not, like matter, a kind of stuff. You have energy not in the way that you have blood, but in the way you have height. All the Star-Trekky stuff about 'things made of pure energy' makes as much sense as 'things made of pure height'. *removes pedant hat* Whatever. -------------------- 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 |
| Mathematical Logic... in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, September 11 2005 23:39
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At the risk of bringing people down, it should be pointed out that there are lots of kinds of size, and what has been discussed in this thread is the relatively arcane version called 'cardinality'. Just as valid, and of a lot more practical use, is metrical size, according to which [0,1] is indeed much smaller than R. This is not set theory anymore, but geometry; but so what? -------------------- 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 |
| Forum 13 in Richard White Games | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Sunday, September 11 2005 23:29
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What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Ironycentral to be born? Icshi's fear of non-existent forums reminds me of the "Many Worlds" interpretation of quantum mechanics, which postulates an enormous number of parallel universes. I find the MWI philosophically naive, myself. If you're really careful about its logic, you find that it doesn't actually achieve what it claims as its main success, namely the elimination of the quantum measurement postulate. I would find it unimpressive as a scientific hypothesis even if it did achieve its logical reduction, because it postulates such a record-breaking number of unobservable entities. Since in fact it fails, the MWI ranks high on my personal list of Bad Ideas. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |