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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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| Greta or Alwan? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 13 2005 07:27
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I think Alwan should have a (relatively weak) missile attack, but what he most needs is armor upgrades. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Some thoughts about Shapers World in Geneforge Series | |
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written Monday, June 13 2005 07:24
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I have always thought that G2 assumes that the Geneforge was destroyed without being used in G1, so that there is no 'Overpowered One' in existence. Just as G3 assumes a loyalist or unaligned ending to G2. I suppose there is some loophole for a geneforge-enhanced character from G1 to be ruling an isolated empire somewhere, while G2 and G3 go on; but it would seem pretty strange that nobody in G2 mentions this important fact while giving their history lessons. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| favorite character type? in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 13 2005 07:16
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Kind of depends on my mood. I agree that Shapers are most original, but sometimes the micromanagement of creation movement gets tedious. Agents are fun and easy to just blast things with. Overall, though, a Guardian might actually be most fun, because on Torment you really have to think a lot about what you're doing, and use all the tricks in the book. I usually play an Agent first, because then I'll be able to concentrate on exploring and following the plot without having to think much about tactics. Then I try a Shaper, and try to play a different way (in G3, I went rebel). Last of all I try a Guardian, when I'm familiar with the game and want more tactical challenge. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| The Shade Pit in Geneforge Series | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Monday, June 13 2005 07:08
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I managed to do it before leaving Harmony, with a melee Guardian accompanied by Alwan. My trick was just to use a lot of Speed pods and some crystals. I had saved a bunch of crystals up to that point (by slogging through the Vlish Woods and places like it tree-to-tree and hand-to-hand). I stood near the book after each reading as the first few shades came in one at a time, taking them down with a shot or two from range (steel javelins maybe? Don't remember.) or an assist from Alwan. I stayed blessed, protected, and hasted as much of the time as I could, throughout the battle. As the shade numbers grew, I retreated around the corner into the passage that leads to the sealed door, and began popping out to fire one shot at a time, then popping back, dropping out of combat, re-entering combat, and repeating. This allowed me to whittle down a few more shades as they slowly approached, as long as my speed pods lasted. Eventually I was dealing with the ghosts and infernal shade from the last reading, cornered up next to the sealed door; but there was still a tiny corner I could hide behind, right next to the door there, and speed and my last spray crystals took them all down. Alwan bought it in this final struggle, of course. Turned out I was able to deal with the rest of Krya's Refuge alone, though, using one last speed pod, some melee, and a lot of thorns on Krya himself. -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Have You Ever Used Alorael's Signature in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 18:30
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Such the dread power of Alorael's vengeance, that those who be not sniped, entombèd are, in walls of adamant to die by breaths, and end their days at last in fretful dolor. — Fear Justice. [ Sunday, June 12, 2005 15:37: 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 |
| ROLL CALL in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 07:20
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I like Eagle's 'urban Imban' poem. It has something. -------------------- 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 |
| What are you addicted to? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 07:02
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TM's last image is a Japanese album cover. I haven't the slightest idea what this music is like; I just googled the .jpg file name. Deliberate obscurity isn't spam to me, though it may be indistinguishable from it at first glance. Deliberate obscurity is half the fun of a thread like this. Ya gotta have faith. -------------------- 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 |
| What's your sex? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Saturday, June 11 2005 06:11
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There is a proof that the digits of pi will never repeat, really never. I do not know the proof, but I believe it. The universe is not a sphere. There is a chance that it is spatially a three-sphere, but if I remember rightly, this can be merely a matter of how you look at it. (That is, current evidence supports an open universe, which is roughly like de Sitter space, which I think can be represented as spatially open or closed depending on co-ordinate choice.) Seth Lloyd, a professor at MIT, wrote a paper a few years ago (which I think was published in Nature) on the ultimate physical limits to computing. Anyone who is interested could probably dig it up on the physics e-print archive. -------------------- 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 |
| What's your sex? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, June 10 2005 11:32
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Ah, shees, I bet you're right. I really should have asked something when the sales guy seemed to snicker about the mouse, but no, I figured, It's Built on NT Technology, so it must be okay. Guess I just have to wait until the coming surge of Indian computer technology puts little boxes with urdu keyboards and terahertz clock speeds on all our desks for the price of a dozen chai lattes. -------------------- 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 |
| What's your sex? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, June 10 2005 10:42
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I swear this rotten computer I'm using right now must be a Turing machine, and a Turing machine with a sticky tape at that. Either that, or the grinding sounds it constantly makes are from beads sliding around inside. -------------------- 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 |
| Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General | |
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Electric Sheep One
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written Friday, June 10 2005 10:35
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EDIT: Sorry, somehow I accidentally double posted only to quote the preceding post. [ Saturday, June 11, 2005 18:43: 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 Friday, June 10 2005 10:33
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Hermes was a cunning rascal, and the fact that he was patron of merchants says a lot about the ancient Greek idea of commerce. On the day Hermes was born he rustled Apollo's cattle, but when his crime was discovered he bought himself off by giving Apollo the lyre, which he had invented along the way. Apollo became an expert player of the lyre he couldn't invent, but was vengeful if slighted. So Auden's symbolism is reasonably apt. -------------------- 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 |
| ROLL CALL in General | |
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written Friday, June 10 2005 10:13
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I AM JUST THIS GUY, YOU KNOW!!! I AM FOR EVERYONE LIVING THEIR OWN LIVES AND NOT MAKING MY PHONE RING WHEN I AM TRYING TO CONCENTRATE, ALL RIGHT!!! NO MAN IS AN IMBAN!!! [edit: !!!] [ Friday, June 10, 2005 11:24: 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 |
| Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General | |
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written Friday, June 10 2005 08:25
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From the peroration to "Under which lyre", by W.H. Auden: quote:The whole poem is great: http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6570&poem=32427 -------------------- 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 Friday, June 10 2005 08:12
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I have studied at, worked at, or visited quite a number of different institutions over the past twenty years. After a few too many years in post-doctoral research, this year I have been an adjunct lecturer at three different Boston-area colleges. In September I'll be a professor at a good but (to Americans) obscure university in Germany. At no point have I actually been affiliated with any institution calling itself 'Trinity'. The moniker is whimsical. [ Friday, June 10, 2005 08:14: 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 Friday, June 10 2005 07:44
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Hey, if turing tape can attach furnish to furniture, maybe it can be used to attach other abstractions to material objects. That would be very handy. You could use it to keep facts at your fingertips, or if you found that the meaning was coming loose from your written words. Or to stick the Form of human being to a bunch of long chain molecules. Yep, handy. Just don't make the mistake of thinking that instead of using 'ture' for the act of turning a verb into a noun, you could just use 'noun' as a verb. That would be self-referential in a contradictory way, and in this context that would be bad. You might find your thoughts going round in a turing circus and never stopping. This thread is getting ontologically hazardous. Time to go for coffee. [ Friday, June 10, 2005 07:54: 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 |
| Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General | |
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written Friday, June 10 2005 07:35
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In saying that 'in science, old is bad and new is good', I meant 'science' to refer only to work accepted as such by the competetent scientific community. Among those merely claiming to have made revolutionary discoveries, crackpots outnumber great scientists by a lot more than 9 to 1. I used to have a sort of soft spot for crackpots. I enjoyed flipping through the volumes they donate to college science libraries, which are sometimes quite beautifully produced. I corresponded patiently with a few by e-mail. Eventually the penny dropped that these guys are not interested in science at all, but only in being great scientists. Crackpots are often clever, but they are motivated predominantly by egotism instead of curiosity. That is how I distinguish crackpots from scientists with radical ideas. -------------------- 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 Friday, June 10 2005 07:03
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To 'ture' is of course to make a noun out of a verb. It is a metaformation from such instances as 'furnish -> furniture' and 'invest -> investiture'. I never thought about it before, but of course Thuryl is right that you need to attach the extra syllables somehow. Recombinant neologistics needs its tools. -------------------- 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 Friday, June 10 2005 06:40
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I guess I like the way the Great Books program does see college education as a whole. But I despise its presumption that the only appropriate whole is a badly dated and ideologically tilted western canon, and I find its approach to science ludicrous. It is by no means a bad thing to learn scientific reasoning by seeing how now-discredited theories were good solutions in their days. But doing that at the expense of learning, as best we now can, how the universe actually works, is ridiculous. And it is the nature of science that the original expression of an idea is never nearly as good as the refined view that emerges decades later. Trying to learn modern natural science by reading only the great books of the originating scientists is handicapping oneself enormously. Newton, Maxwell and Einstein all died before many of the most profound aspects of the theories they created were understood by anyone. The fact that the Great Books programs don't recognize this betrays their basic misunderstanding of what science is about. Einstein is not the ultimate authority on Einsteinian relativity: mathematics and experiment, which are open to anyone, can overrule Einstein's own attitudes at any time. So the scientific Great Books are of historical, not scientific, interest. As far as I'm concerned, natural science is simply a huge counterexample to the fundamentally conservative ideology on which the Great Books idea of education is based. In science old is bad and new is good, period. Great Books people just can't accept that, so they put up a bogus conservative substitute for science. -------------------- 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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written Friday, June 10 2005 06:13
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What are the b's, then? The sticky bits? -------------------- 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 do we pronounce... in General | |
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written Friday, June 10 2005 06:05
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Linguists somehow believe they have reconstructed how actual ancient Romans pronounced their Latin. (I don't know much about how this is done, except that I don't think it relies much at all on Stargate-style theories of phonetic change over time. One important technique is to scan the ancient literature for references to the funny accents of foreigners/yokels/idiots etc. Such comments often have implications for how things were supposed to be pronounced. Maybe Kelandon can tell us more about how this works?) Anyway, I've been taught that the Romans would have said MAH-GEE (with a hard G). It's plural, by the way. The Latin singular is magus. That having been said, I believe Micael can pronounce his moniker any old way he wants, and it will be polite of us to follow him. I am still trying to adapt to KelANdon. -------------------- 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 |
| Which Faction Has The Powa? in Geneforge Series | |
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written Thursday, June 9 2005 17:41
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"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" -------------------- We're not doing cool. We're doing pretty. Posts: 3335 | Registered: Thursday, September 4 2003 07:00 |
| Which Faction Has The Powa? in Geneforge 2 | |
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written Thursday, June 9 2005 17:41
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"Badges? We ain't got no badges. We don't need no badges. I don't have to show you any stinking badges!" -------------------- 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 |
| Magic: the Gathering in General | |
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written Thursday, June 9 2005 17:34
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It seems that one Casimir Pulaski is celebrated as the Father of the American Cavalry. A somehow disquieting title. -------------------- 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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written Thursday, June 9 2005 17:26
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You have sacrificed your posting honor to the greater glory of the thread. Personally, though, I would return your sword for making a new page, so that I don't have to keep seeing the previous page's first post before scrolling down. It wasn't all that horrible, but I was pretty tired of it. [ Thursday, June 09, 2005 17:29: 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 |