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OOC: The Vale RP in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #162
quote:
Originally written by Iffy is begging for a PS3:

And now that I know what gooddmodding is, I won't do it again.
I think this is better, Eph. :P

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Rocky's Revival (World of Avernum Factional RP Revival Discussion) in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #19
quote:
Originally written by Goldenking:

Is it just me or has there been a lot of Beatle's related posts recently? I mean, the thread title is obviously taken from Rocky Raccoon.
Or the Rocky films... But yeah, Beatles posts ftw.

Dintiradan: If you want her back that's fine. Otherwise, meh. We'll say she died. As for my old faction, there are two things I'm thinking could've happened to them:

A) They just got swallowed up into a bigger Avernite faction (probably Tyran's).
B) They got too shouty and were killed (which makes sense if the surface became uninhabitable - even if people on the surface were dying, my lot wouldn't let anybody down into the caves).

So it depends on the opening post, I guess. Either's good though. As for who I'm going to be, I'm willing to take up a faction that already exists, or else make up something new, again depending on the opening post.

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Who celebrates Christmas? in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #26
quote:
Originally written by Excalibur:

...So I suppose Santa pulls a sleight with kangaroos there.
This is one of the better typos I've seen recently. If only it was deliberate!

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #473
quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

This thread sucks.

Bring back Episode 2!!!!!1!!

Puh-lease. The "fake" Episode was the zenith of the series. :P

Back to this Episode though, I can't wait to see what's been happening down in the Blades forums. People keep disappearing down there, and all we ever see is the General forum!

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Jest and Youthful Jolity in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #14
I've not really got plans per se. I'm working Christmas Eve, and New Year's Day, but otherwise I'm mosty free. I think the reason I've not planned ahead is the lack of any kind of festive spirit in my town.

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Rocky's Revival (World of Avernum Factional RP Revival Discussion) in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #11
I am in. My old faction is not.

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Who celebrates Christmas? in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #22
quote:
Originally written by Drew:

Swing your razor high, Sweeney! I understand the movie actually isn't going to feature the musical's opening anthem. :(
I've heard that too... :(

I celebrate Christmas in a way not wholly unlike Aran, but with less coriander, and more Jack Daniels.

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Code Help in Blades of Avernum Editor
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #8
quote:
Originally written by Lazarus.:

Or just specobj with a flag/item/whatever check in the state it calls.
That's the way I do it, and it's so damn easy. Place a specobj terrain script on a container, set memory cell 0 to 10 (or whatever), and then add this in the town script:

beginstate 10; //or whatever
if(get_flag(0,1) == 0) { //if the condition isn't met...
block_entry(1); //stop them getting the loot
message_dialog("You can't open this chest yet,",""); //and maybe leave them a message
}
break;


[ Monday, December 17, 2007 05:26: Message edited by: Funkadelic ]

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #468
quote:
Originally written by A Mysterious Blue-Skinned Wanderer:

Whats a reaper disk?
I think this post sums up everything that is wrong with this thread. Gah, I say.

Lazarus won't be found for ages yet, since he knows more than the audience. When we find out more about "the plan", he'll come running in and say "Guess what! Guess what!" Except in a less Iffy way.

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #451
quote:
Originally written by A Mysterious Blue-Skinned Wanderer:

I could always hunt them down with a Longsword 8+ of Fire?
No, because;

1) Longsword's suck. And, I mean, +8? Anyway, bastard swords FTW.
2) You failed your I'm-not-an-idiot check. Badly. Like, as in, uh, the die exploded.

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
The War on Christmas in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #49
quote:
Originally written by Safey:

Coming from a family that wouldn't as rich (their times when both my parents didn't have jobs). Not having a stove,oven,microwave, and internet access (local library) have never been a problem. That said you be hard press to convince me cooking is a matter of class. As far as I know its customary for an apartment to come with an oven.
As far as you know? In England, a lot of places don't, and you have to either bring one from your old house, or else buy a new one. I've been looking at flats lately, since I'm looking at moving out of the family home, and I'd say 50% of them I've seen don't come with an oven.

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Its is rare for a family not to have a working oven. The oven is a large light bulb. It filament will on rare occasions break. When it does break you go to the store and buy a $15 replacement. The only other way an oven can break is A: its older then you are B: your trying to break it. If you buy a new oven every time the filament breaks then I have to question your intellect or assume your incredibly wealthy.
Here I was thinking that an oven is actually a flame, fuelled by gas. In fact, I'm pretty sure we have to light a big stick to get ours to light after turning on the gas because the ignition button (it doubles as a racing car) is broken. Sure, you can get electric ones, but even then if the filament blows, it's not a matter of buying a £10 bulb to replace it. They cost a lot of money.

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Being poor is no excuse for being fat.
None of my family are obese, nor have they ever been obese. But I'm sure that being poor limits the food that people can buy. Supermarkets rarely price fatty, junk food higher than food packed with nutrients and vitamins. I mean, at the supermarket I work at, 1kg bags of frozen ovenchips cost about £1. A bag of fresh potatoes of a similar weight are nearly twice as much. Processed beef-burgers cost £2.20 for 8, whereas the meat you'd need to make them is priced anywhere between £3 to £6, depending on the quality. And I hope that it's obvious which are the better foods out of just those examples. When I first started my job, I was appalled that a single apple cost 39 pence at our shop. 39p for an apple! Suppose you have four kids, like my family. That's £1.60 for an apple each, not counting the two adults. And that's only one of your five-a-day.

And okay, I'm not saying that is the case 100% of the time, and I'm sure that you can find potatoes and meat and whatever cheaper elsewhere, if you look around, but if you're on a budget, you're more likely to buy the cheaper stuff - the stuff that are cheaper because it doesn't have piles of vitamin c in it, because it wasn't grown organically, or whatever. And eating stuff like that leads to obesity.

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Spiderweb Release Dates & Other Stuff in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #9
quote:
Originally written by Dikiyoba:

1. There's probably a list somewhere, but now there's one here too.

Exile: January 1995
Exile II: November 1995
Exile III: January 1997
Blades of Exile: December 1997

Nethergate: 1999
Nethergate Resurrection: May 2007

Avernum 1: 2000
Avernum 2: 2000
Avernum 3: 2002
Blades of Avernum: 2004
Avernum 4: 2005/2006
Avernum 5: 2007 (Mac only)

Geneforge: 2001/2002
Geneforge 2: 2003
Geneforge 3: 2005
Geneforge 4: 2006/2007

Dikiyoba is not responsible for the accuracy of this list. Use at your own risk. When opening this list, do not point it at yourself or others. Keep out of reach of children. All sales final.

My child choked on the plastic wrapping that the list was shipped in. The wrapping was not listed as a choking hazard. Who do I direct my lawsuit against?

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
The War on Christmas in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #47
Just going back to the oven debate, my family didn't get a proper oven until I was about 5 - before then we just used a stove and a grill. There have also been times when we've only been able to afford food that clearly wasn't doing anything great for us nutritionally, but was cheap enough to live off.

Now, we're fortunate that both my parents have reasonably paid jobs (I remember for much of my childhood we lived off my dad's wages (about £8,000) and child benefits so maybe it just seems reasonable comparitively), and we eat much better because of it. Just as an example, when you can only afford to eat bags of frozen oven chips and tins of baked beans, you don't get much fruit.

Oh, and I know society's definition of "beautiful" is totally wrong, but I couldn't resist...

quote:
By Andra:
How many people have ever looked at pants in the junior clothes department?
Is that a trick question, and do you work for any branch of the Metropolitan Police? We have a word for people that look at pants in the junior clothes department over here in England... :P

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #449
quote:
Originally written by Jumpin' Salmon:

It may be that my love blinded me to the absence of the pith. :(
I... I don't know what to say... Just don't leave me! I can change, and become the pith-posting person you want me to be!

Oh, and notebooks ftw. I can't even imagine writing into a word processor from scratch.

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
RPG Life.. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #41
I hate how this thread has been hijacked by "roflcopters" and the ilk. :(

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #426
When have I ever added anything "pithy" to the boards, Salmon? :P

And more to the point, you told me you loved me regardless...

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Released: Blades Forge in Blades of Avernum Editor
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #4
quote:
Originally written by Lazarus.:

I love the Blades Forge idea, for the record, and am going to have lots of problems if it doesn't take off. So you clowns start using it or I'm going to have to start busting skulls. :P
Seconded, but with possibly less bloodshed, and more "unexplained illnesses".

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Nikki's Nook - from the bottom of the sea.
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #420
I hope you're pleased with yourself Dikiyoba - the latest episode took 15 or so minutes from my 24 hours.

Stop helping me procrastinate!!

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Instant death nodes in Blades of Avernum
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #17
quote:
Originally written by Niemand:

I will comment that as a player, I hate use of this tactic to prevent the party from doing things the designer doesn't want; anything else is preferable to me. I'd personally prefer this to be used only as a last resort.
As a designer, I find that kill nodes are bad, too. It makes beta-testers cry. Of course, if you try to kill the uber-boss guy, you're not going to get off lightly, but still.

I like to put in a warning, and then boot the party out of the scenario, with a end_scenario(2) call - in game, I'd say they were exiled from town or whatever. Much nicer, and the player doesn't have to reload.

quote:
Originally written by Lazarus:

And you can get by fine without Alint, I never use it (command line is teh suk) and I know TM doesn't either, although he doesn't have that excuse.
I've used it once or twice. I think I was getting weird errors in TV, and I couldn't work out why. Turns out setting memory cells above the expected limits is bad.

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #402
quote:
Originally written by Nioca:

Nija, knock it off.

I hope that Ephesos's absence allows my character to gain some power. Might as well have some sort of silver lining to it.

*Thats* your silver lining?! :P

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #396
I wrote "Episode" with a capital "e". I wasn't talking about this chapter being the best...

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Episode 4: Spiderweb Reloaded. Something like that anyway. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #394
Nice chapter, even if it was missing the word "furry". This Episode is definitely the best of the bunch

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Nikki's Nook - La maison de mon rêve?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
The next level in RP, personal thoughts. in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #62
I am!

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
Question about Lyceum message boards in Blades of Avernum
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #6
Now might be the time to start backing it up, at any rate.

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00
OMG!! in General
Shaper
Member # 3442
Profile Homepage #0
I've just got back from a weekend away in Manchester, having had an amazing time, eating good food, and seeing good bands.

But, by far the best thing I saw was last night (Sunday 3rd), whilst ordering my Jack and coke from the bar:

IMAGE(http://www.sitemouse.com/users/supanik/1.JPG)

Next time you're in England, Tyran, I'll buy you a pint. :)

Anybody else with Spiderweb-related things in their town/city/cave?

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Nikki's Nook - bigger than Jesus?
Posts: 2864 | Registered: Monday, September 8 2003 07:00

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