Profile for Albus Dumbledore
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| Displayed name | Albus Dumbledore |
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| Title | Warrior |
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| Registered | Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Friday, December 10 2004 06:05
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Also, they appear to have made the Vahnatai into a sort of Ninja warrior. Of course they're quick, but most of them are mages, no? And... Slithzeranki? But Vahnatai and Nepharim spelt right? (Nephilim isn't copyrighted, but the others are probably) [ Friday, December 10, 2004 06:06: Message edited by: Okay, it might be. ] -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, December 9 2004 06:31
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Well he'd have to be arrogant to rip a game off and then claim his rip-off is better than the original. quote:"Mh. So here's Avernum. This other dude also made a game set in that world, but who cares?" [ Thursday, December 09, 2004 06:33: Message edited by: Okay, it might be. ] -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Thursday, December 9 2004 06:29
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Nope... still not displaying. -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 8 2004 06:32
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quote:I think it refers to the previous sentence. -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 8 2004 06:28
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I would err on the other side with some cases and wonder if not, possibly, some people lied in order to get higher test results... this is like with the Geek test. :P -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 7 2004 13:48
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The alternative Valorim map is very intriguing... -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 7 2004 05:46
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As a quick note: The download sites listed in the first post are all broken due to a comma attached at the end. It's not a big problem, but it's still annoying to have to correct the address when you try to download. That said, over the next weekend I might try to godmod my way through some of those scenarios to count number of towns etc and other stuff Alex requires on the submission form. That's sort of the idea, right? -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 7 2004 04:09
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Gurrk. Studying Math can make you an idiot when simple solutions are required. :rolleyes: Of course, by relaunching you can fit anything into any interval. Just cut the interval off at the top, and relaunch for anything higher. Even for higher dice than d20, you can simply throw several d20's and then do the relaunch with the sum. Ah well, it was fun anyway. :P [ Tuesday, December 07, 2004 04:11: Message edited by: Okay, it might be. ] -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 7 2004 01:50
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Paranoid: Moderate Schizoid: High Schizotypal: Moderate Antisocial: Low Borderline: Low Histrionic: Moderate Narcissistic: Low Avoidant: Moderate Dependent: Low Obsessive-Compulsive: Low -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 7 2004 01:05
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quote:I wonder what Jeff aranged with Foglio when he ordered those pictures? Time for another 'behind the scenes' guess. "So, Phil, here's the thing. I give you this list of words, and you draw what you most closely associate with that word. You have one minute each. Here's the list:" cat archerlizard pikemanassassinationsickness...:D -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, December 7 2004 00:51
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Damn Plato and Geometry. :P But with only a little knowledge of Statistics and Stochastics, you can roughly convert most probability ranges into dice with a physically possible number of sides. It's not like you can't do anything with d4, d6, d8, d12 and d20. It's not going to convert nicely, but it sort of works if you're not worried about the actual probabilities, only the ranges. Look at 1d11 + 1. You can roll any of 11 numbers, 2-12. 11-sided dice? Impossible. Or 1d7 + 1. Now look at 2d6 (The other one works out to 2d4) . Admittedly, where before you have an equal chance of 1/11, now you have ranges from 1/36 at the far ends to 1/6 in the center. But the average result is still the same, that should be good enough. Edit: So this doesn't seem like random guesswork and coincidence, here's the way to find such an "alternative" dice set with the same range. Where x = number of dice, y = number of sides, z = added constant. Multiply (y-1) * x. Look for any one of the following factors: 3, 5, 7, 11, 19. If one of them is in there, divide the product by that to get the new dice number, then add one to the factor you divided to get the new sides number. After that it's only a matter of shifting z so that the range is the same. Edit 2: Okay, so it doesn't work every time - see 1d9. [ Tuesday, December 07, 2004 01:20: Message edited by: This isn't Arancaytar. Really. ] -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, December 6 2004 08:16
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Why so cheery? :) -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, December 6 2004 06:50
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Hey, congratulations! :) -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, December 6 2004 03:53
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? :D -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, December 6 2004 02:31
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Now now. Don't be Evil. :)  [ Monday, December 06, 2004 02:32: Message edited by: This isn't Arancaytar. Really. ] -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, December 5 2004 02:08
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quote: quote:Indeed. -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Friday, December 3 2004 06:38
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What do people mean if they say "I can't wait", though? It's not exactly something you choose to do. It's like saying "I can't grow sick". What if you do? So if waiting gets unbearable, do they just give up? Break out in a screaming fit? Such a strange notion - and yet it's an everyday phrase... -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Friday, December 3 2004 01:16
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I have mixed feelings about the skill screen cartoons. (and I mean 'mixed' in the sense of 'mixed', not a disguised way of saying 'bad') Some of them are priceless, yes (I loved that picture of the woman peeling an apple with this sword). Others are unrelated to the actual skill in anything beyond name (honestly, a 'poison ring' picture for the assassination skill?). Still others are just crappily drawn. I have little problems with the skills screen making the story less serious - the screen isn't involved in the story, you will never see a character saying "I can give you an additional 10 points of Strength." (if they did, then I'd complain). As to the isometric screen, I'll agree. It's an ambitious step on Jeff's part and it certainly improves navigation, but it takes away some of that atmosphere and detail by replacing it with perspective and animation. So the game gets easier to handle, but less authentic at the same time. What I'll say in Avernum's defense: Where you had 3-4 windows showing small bits of text, you now have one nice big screen. The text is what makes the depth of the story, so anything that makes it more readable is an improvement. -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, November 30 2004 08:25
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Indeed, mesmerizing. quote:And I guess that concludes the topic... -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 29 2004 23:58
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And Roleplaying as done on Spiderweb mainly varies around the 'story-telling' as well as the Arena kind (which afaik has only made its way to Spiderweb itself since the original Arena grew increasingly dead). The occasional one-line "Hey lets beat up teh orcs!1" is thrown in (though that has lessened since the first RP I saw here a year and a half ago). The most successful RPs are (or at least the one best RP I've seen was) based on a combination of both Arena-style and story-based roleplaying. My theory is that both ways combined are enough to overwhelm the one-line roleplaying. Then again, it might be due to the fact that when the two styles combine, we don't have Desperance and Polaris b**ching at each other. But that's another story entirely. [ Monday, November 29, 2004 23:59: Message edited by: I Am A Puppet Account ] -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 29 2004 23:42
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Well, not every AI has to pass the Turing test you know. It could just be a very complex set of instructions on how to find, for example, this bloody word 'Vicodin' in the mails I get. Seriously... "V-i.c_o?d!i,n" ? How smart is that? :rolleyes: I could make a Java program right now that'd turn up that kind of thing. -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, November 29 2004 22:15
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It won't be long until spam filters get upgraded to see these kind of messages too, I hope. That'd be another step on the way to functional Artificial Intelligence! Says a lot about us that we'd develop it to protect us from Spam. :rolleyes: -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 28 2004 23:10
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quote:"We hates that big bright face in the sky! It spies on us! It burns us, it burns us!" He did, but you can't say he was comfortable. If it hadn't been for the ring, he'd have stayed in his cool shady caves. :P -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 28 2004 23:04
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Where of course, the Arena is special in the sense that its rules place more weight on realism than on the writing itself. That's not a bad or good thing, it just makes for different roleplays. Depending on whether you're used to a.) RPs with dice, or b.) with one-line posts of "Me takes sword and goes beat up big orc baddies", or c.) with hugely long reams of inner monologue and novel-like depth, you'll enjoy it or not. -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, November 28 2004 22:50
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That looks more idyllic than Duisburg, certainly. The dying town where I semi-live (I return on week-ends) forced not into the role of an 'idyllic village', but instead (unsuccessfully) tried by the city council to transform into a 'cosmopolitan metropolis'. Which in common terms means they borrow money and plan huge buildings with it to attract multinational companies and tourists. They built a musical (Les Miserables, which in fact is uncannily apt here), right next to the red-light district, but it didn't attract any tourists (if you can visit Cologne, Duesseldorf and Aachen, whoever would go to stinky Duisburg?) That's what happens when a city's industry is based on steel-making. When the coal runs out, you're screwed. ;) -------------------- "Toleration is not the opposite of intoleration, but is the counterfeit of it. Both are despotisms. The one assumes to itself the right of withholding liberty of conscience, and the other of granting it." ---Thomas Paine Posts: 156 | Registered: Thursday, January 8 2004 08:00 |