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Displayed name	Kelandon
Member number	4045
Title	Off With Their Heads
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Homepage	http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/
Registered	Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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wat is better? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 7 2006 12:48 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by Dikiyoba: Well, MagmaDragoon only made one mistake on each fix, as opposed to many. But since he opened the door: FYT: MagmaDragoon only made one mistake in each fix, not many. quote: quote: FYT: Ok, thanks for advice and warning. FYT: Ok, thanks for the advice and warning. "Okay" is either a word ("okay") or an acronym ("O.K."). In neither case is it written "Ok." The advice and the warning are two separate things, so it's more stylistically proper to use two different articles. FYT: Okay. Thank you for the advice and the warning. quote: quote: FYT: Sorry if I have spoke anything wrong, I'm not a good speller. FYT: Sorry if I have spelt anything wrong, I'm not a good speller. FYT: I am sorry if I have spelled anything incorrectly; I'm not a good speller. [Explanation below.] quote: Originally written by Zeviz: 2. Independent sentences shouldn't be joined together by a comma alone. You also need a preposition. Er, no. You mean a conjunction. quote: In this case "Sorry if I have spelt anything incorrectly" is a subordinate clause, so that "as" actually introduced a new error. Well, that's the tricky thing. Technically the clause following the "if" is subordinate, but the "Sorry" part is an ellision from "I am sorry." This ellision is ungrammatical in proper written English (since it creates a fragment). One ought to write the whole main clause: "I am sorry." The "as" doesn't really tie the sentences together in an appropriate way. I suggest using a semi-colon, which indicates that the sentences are closely related but not necessarily in any specific fashion. SoT's point is worth noting, too, but it's important to know the rules, even if one chooses deliberately to violate them. I find that too many people do not know how to write formally, which tends to stem from an inability to read formal writing, which makes a large class of writing inaccessible. This, I think, is bad. [ Friday, April 07, 2006 12:52: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
easter is comeing in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 7 2006 12:30 Profile Homepage #39 quote: Originally written by Tyranicus: You've never heard of St. Nicholas, Kel? He was a real person who helped impoverished children. In Europe (correct me if I'm an infomred American :P ) they say he comes on St. NIcholas's Day (December 6th), as opposed to Christmas Eve. He existed, yes, but getting from the historical Saint Nick to the popular conception of Santa takes some creative historical narration ("making things up") in traditional style of the medieval hagiographers, as well as some standard American bastardization. SoT: I suppose Good Friday is as good a time as any to start going over the texts. I'll have findings by Easter itself. It's sort of amusing to consider the recently-revealed Gospel of Judas, though: by one account, at least, Jesus wanted to be betrayed and crucified. [ Friday, April 07, 2006 16:28: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Hell freezes over. in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 7 2006 07:25 Profile Homepage #12 It is nefas that we can dual-boot OS X and XP but not OS X and OS 9. Still, this probably means that, along with the next computer I buy (in two or three years), I'll purchase XP, although I won't use it very much. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
easter is comeing in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, April 7 2006 07:21 Profile Homepage #35 The "three wise men" approach as ritualized in Spanish-speaking countries makes far more sense to me than the American version. Santa seems about as random as the Easter Bunny. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Here is a book of knowledge. in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 6 2006 17:16 Profile Homepage #16 Ease off the caps. If BoA is any measure, only the second call will get used, so you can safely delete the first it_level and it will behave the same way. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
easter is comeing in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 6 2006 14:51 Profile Homepage #29 quote: Originally written by Dintiradan: The birth of Christ most likely happened around late spring (shepherds in the fields, etc.) I can't resist. The birth of Jesus of Nazareth is only likely to have happened in late spring if you're inclined to believe the whole Jesus-birth story, and I tend to think that only the classically ill-informed or those whose religions have convinced them to believe something would actually believe the wise-men thing. Consider accounts of the birth of Augustus from a time roughly contemporary to the New Testament, for instance, as evidence that such birthing stories were frequently completely fabricated. With regard to Easter, I suspect that my practice on that day will much more nearly reflect contemporary American practice than anything even remotely religious, although it might be an interesting time to read the Greek New Testament's accounts of the crucifixion and compare them. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
A Great Series, And . . . in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 6 2006 07:16 Profile Homepage #10 Again, trying the demos will tell you this. The overall plotline of each game is pretty well revealed by the end of the demo. The short answer is: probably, yes. I'd recommend playing them in order. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
A Great Series, And . . . in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, April 6 2006 07:00 Profile Homepage #8 Well, you can, of course, try the A1 or A2 or A3 demo and see what you think. They're pretty different as far as look-and-feel, though, so be warned. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Everyone in Silvar HATES me! in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 20:55 Profile Homepage #13 quote: Originally written by Umgook the Destroyer: I changed the "C" in Orc to a "k" because the "ED" made the "C" soft (thank you stoopid rules of grammar...) It's rare that I get to be pedantic twice in a thread, but here's my second opportunity. There is, in fact, a spelling rule that covers this. It states that, in a situation like this, the C should be changed to a CK before the -ED suffix is added. This can actually be seen in the word "magic," when someone says, "I magicked up a way out." -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Lost Bahssikava (a1) in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 16:49 Profile Homepage #1 Just west of the unopenable steel doors, there's a secret passage. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Formello's Black Shade of Icy Doom in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 16:48 Profile Homepage #4 People have done this before. I think TM did it right after the game came out. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Question about Endurance in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 16:22 Profile Homepage #3 Yes. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Lizette in Geneforge Series
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 16:17 Profile Homepage #10 I think that the sentence was in the past tense for a reason. Either that, or someone didn't read the thread. I'm inclined to believe the former, mostly out of misguided optimism. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Geneforging in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 14:51 Profile Homepage #14 What I was getting at is this: because it's rather hard to put a non-controversially specific number on someone's intelligence, you can't just make everyone a 10 on the intelligence scale, but since there are physical limitations on the human body, you also can't simply make someone many orders of magnitude more intelligent than other people. EDIT: Here we go. There isn't a definite maximum for intelligence, but it's not like you can just keep going up, either. [ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 16:16: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
BUGS! in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 14:22 Profile Homepage #35 revives The asp's graphic (1551) is also out of order, although in a different way from the eyebeast. North and west are reversed. [ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 14:23: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
BUGS! in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 14:22 Profile Homepage #35 revives The asp's graphic (1551) is also out of order, although in a different way from the eyebeast. North and west are reversed. [ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 14:23: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Geneforging in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 13:36 Profile Homepage #11 quote: Originally written by rantalot: Well this is kind of what happens in invisible war. Every race(humans) have a genetic potential limit. You can only be so smart and you can only be so strong. If you max those straits out everyone you end up losing a good portion of a person’s individuality. Smart people can be really different from each other, you know. And intelligence isn't just on a 1 to 10 scale, something that can be "maxed out." quote: Think about it 6 inches 50 IQ points…why stop there? Why not go as far as you can? Because if you make people too much taller, they die. And one would have to redesign the brain completely in order to make people smarter beyond a certain point. These things are a little bit more complicated that most people realize. Eye color is really easy to pick out, genetically: there's a distinct chromosome and distinct genes that control it. Height and intelligence are very hard, because they're a combination of many, many genes and several environmental factors. Intelligence is not terribly well-defined scientifically anyway. Measuring someone's intelligence is rather harder and more controversial than most have been led to believe. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Everyone in Silvar HATES me! in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 13:25 Profile Homepage #9 Well, out of context, I'd translate it, "greatest little-known things." EDIT: "All magic" would be something like "omnis magia." [ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 13:27: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Everyone in Silvar HATES me! in Avernum 4
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 12:55 Profile Homepage #7 quote: Originally written by Sahdrani: Oh. I'm the Arcana Maxima. It means, "All Magic". That's not actually what that means, you know. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Boa scenario's: what stage are they in now? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 12:52 Profile Homepage #4 A highly productive period over spring break just ended (last week). I have about one and a half more towns (out of nearly 60) in which to implement the combat, and a little more filling in to do, and then it will be time for alpha testing. Work is actually easing up right now, so there's some chance that I'll be able to get to alpha by the end of the month. My plan right now — and any potential beta testers can weigh in on this if they want — is to check for bugs and completeness in the alpha phase, but not to do much with game balance until the beta phase. There are a couple dozen special spells and around as many artifacts, and virtually every monster is customized in some way, so balance will be a very significant issue, and, if I don't even do more than simply make sure that it is possible to complete the scenario in alpha testing, I'll be relying very heavily on my beta testers to give me lots of comments on the usefulness of various spells and the difficulty level of various combats, as well as all the normal things. My concern, though, is that this is a pretty big scenario (almost 60 towns, around 30 outdoor sections), and I'm going to need several people to finish it and comment on it, which apparently has been a problem with large BoE scenarios before. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
April Chat Times? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 12:43 Profile Homepage #13 Jeff has said that he's not going to make another game with an editor for a long time. The discussion is moot anyway. But the only way that I can imagine a sequel to BoA is using a completely different engine, such as the A4 engine. In that way, I could see the potential for a BoA2, even though it's not going to happen. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Indian Doctor Jailed For Agreeing To Abort Female Fetus in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, April 5 2006 07:24 Profile Homepage #37 I think that it's enlightening to look at the medical facts, the things about which we cannot argue. In medicine, "death" is defined in multiple ways. One is clinical death, when the heart stops beating. Another is brain death, when the brain ceases to have any activity. Then there are the final signs, including rigor mortis. That is, if the heart of a full-grown, living human being were to stop beating, and his or her brain were to stop functioning, and his or her body were to become completely immobile, that person would be, by every medical standard, dead. Consider pregnancy for a moment. It is true that, from the moment of conception, a zygote has unique code of human DNA. It is also true that cancer cells have unique codes of human DNA. Indeed, most adults have individual cells with different unique codes of human DNA, since genetic mutation takes place fairly regularly even within an individual. Is an adult human being, therefore, actually several, since he or she has several different unique sets of human DNA? Let's return to the topic of pregnancy. For roughly the first two months of pregnancy, give or take, the thing is called an "embryo," in reference to the fact that it's not much more than a few cells. This is the period when most natural abortions ("miscarriages") take place. This is also the period when natural cloning ("identical twins") take place. Until the end of this period, the embryo does not have differentiated organs (a heart, lungs, etc.), and the embryo is somewhat less than six inches long by the end of two months. Several other very significant developments take place over the next month or so in terms of organ development. It is obvious, then, that the second paragraph's definitions of death — the standard medical ones for a human being — do not apply to an embryo. An embryo's heart cannot stop beating, since it does not have a heart. An embryo's brain cannot cease to function, because it does not have a brain. An embryo's body cannot really tense up into rigor mortis, because it doesn't really have the physical equipment for that. I must admit igorance, though: I don't know what standard doctors use to determine if an embryo has "died" — which means, presumably, that it is no longer possible for this embryo to develop into a fetus and then a baby — or even if such a term is used. Usually at about six or seven months, it becomes possible (with current technology) to keep a birthed fetus alive outside the womb and bring it up as a full-fledged child. These facts were the ones used, I believe, in determining what a human being is, in the U.S. Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, and at what point in pregnancy the fetus begins to have rights. [ Wednesday, April 05, 2006 07:27: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
Geneforging in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 4 2006 21:46 Profile Homepage #5 I admit that I attempted to visualize a way in which enhancement of that nature would make someone taller. The least bad idea that I came up with is that a person might spend most of his time lying flat on his back. The other ideas I had are, well, best not mentioned. [ Tuesday, April 04, 2006 21:47: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
April Chat Times? in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, April 4 2006 19:37 Profile Homepage #4 I'm getting a little tired of the unfocused, general Spiderweb chats, personally. It would be nice to have another Blades chat, although perhaps not one every week. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 \| Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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