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Displayed name	Kelandon
Member number	4045
Title	Off With Their Heads
Postcount	7968
Homepage	http://home.sanbrunocable.com/~tommywatts03/
Registered	Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00

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Across the Universe? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, November 7 2007 19:50 Profile Homepage #9 Eh. We could reasonably make it to Alpha Centauri someday. Getting to the nearby solar systems is not in principle out of the question. Relativistic speeds are achievable, albeit with enormous amounts of energy, and while getting to Alpha Centauri is a long trek even at relativistic speeds, it's not beyond the bounds of reason. Still, there are a couple of major difficulties. Spaceships traveling at relativistic speeds are still impossible in practice with current technology, so getting out of the range of the Sun is not likely soon. But other, more pressing, problem is: what the heck do we do once we get there? Even presuming that we brought along either terraforming technology (yeah, right) or a small livable environment (a dome with breathable air, say), we still rely on our local astrophysical conditions for basic daily needs. Dismissing day and night — we could simulate that via lights, I suppose — and any sort of solar energy usage, we nevertheless need the Earth for gravity. Even relatively small differences in planet mass (between, say, Earth and Mars) are noticeable in daily life and impact our bodies in strange and generally deleterious ways. Put another way, to the best of my understanding, we need another planet that has almost exactly Earth's mass in order to be able to live on it. Atmosphere can be simulated, and we can probably mine for most of the stuff that we need (though water would be nice), and even proximity to a star is optional, but gravity is pretty much a must, and that's hard to come by. -------------------- 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
Broke the editor.. in Tech Support
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, November 5 2007 21:56 Profile Homepage #1 Here. [ Monday, November 05, 2007 21:57: 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
Original names in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, November 5 2007 13:25 Profile Homepage #23 My PDN rarely goes through permutations. I went through a "Just Call Me Kel" phase (because everyone was spelling the damn name "Keladon" or "Kaledon" or something stupid like that. I also (due to a conversation with, er, I forget who) passed a phase of being "Malakos the Freshly-Plowed" (it's a Biblical reference). But anyway, this was my original name. -------------------- 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
New version of the Mac 3D Editor in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, November 4 2007 20:01 Profile Homepage #1 Wow. This is a huge improvement. -------------------- 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
Name Choice in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 3 2007 08:11 Profile Homepage #64 quote: Originally written by Dintiradan: By Kelandon: quote: I was aware of the Spidweb pseudonym tradition in the vein of Alcritas, so I wanted one of my own. Kelandon was a character in a story I wrote (not the protagonist, and not a character that I particularly identified with, but a rather snobbish elf prince). I originally came up with the name in the way that Asimov came up with R. Daneel Olivaw: I took a normal name (Landon, as in Landon Donovan) and mucked with it. The "Kel" syllable seemed vaguely elf-ish. O RLY? Heh. I had forgotten that that exists. -------------------- 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
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Saturday, November 3 2007 08:05 Profile Homepage #290 quote: Originally written by Stillness: Wait a minute...If the order of events is 1 I showed up and 2 you responded, how is it that my response killed the thread? You responded to his response. It was that response that killed the thread, you thread-killer. -------------------- 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
Thoughts on Custom Titles. in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, November 2 2007 17:36 Profile Homepage #95 If mods could, Alo would have one by now. Only the administration can. -------------------- 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
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Friday, November 2 2007 17:34 Profile Homepage #285 My point was simply that the fact that some people are damn fools cannot itself be blamed on Albert A. Gore. With respect to the phrasing, as noted above, blame the uncharitable sentiment on general irritation. But damn it, Synergy, you can't have it both ways: either you care about this discussion (in which case your flippant attitude with respect to what you've written and how people read it is fake) or you don't (in which case you shouldn't be getting pissed off in the first place). -------------------- 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
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, November 1 2007 19:49 Profile Homepage #277 quote: Originally written by Synergy: How many people now live in dread about the doomed future of their once celebrated home by the ocean they hoped to pass of to future generations, or has been a family homestead for generations? Um, zero. You're being ridiculous. quote: I spent my whole childhood in a degree of dread about the end of the world soon to come based on stuff in the Revelation, thanks to the foolish beliefs of those around me, as I was growing up. Not everyone has been as blatantly indoctrinated as you. Not everyone belongs to your demographic group. Maybe you're just easy to indoctrinate, which is your fault, not the fault of whoever said anything that you happened to overhear and therefore believe. quote: Who said this discussion should be taken seriously? Serious is tedious, tra la la. Good to know that your points are as spurious as they appear to be. quote: But I did have a serious point made in a seemingly absurd context. Unless your serious point was that Godwin's Law is valid, your means of making it was enough to undermine any conceivable point you could have made. [ Thursday, November 01, 2007 19:51: 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
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, November 1 2007 11:18 Profile Homepage #271 quote: Originally written by Synergy: quote: Originally written by Kelandon: There has not been a mass exodus away from the coasts. Your concern is hilarious, not least because anyone who performed the actions that you describe would be an idiot anyway and not worth your concern. I cannot agree. Every human being on this planet, whether you deem them an idiot or otherwise, is my concern. It would be a shame if even just one person believed and was misguided by some of Al Gore's "science," based on the perception of favorable reception and credibility his film has received. Eh, chalk the uncharitable sentiment up to general irritation, but you haven't actually addressed the point: People didn't start moving en masse away from the coasts solely on Al Gore's say-so. In fact, probably no one did. quote: You have lived most of your life so far in an academic setting, You bring this up in every discussion. Would you like me to remind you that not every person fits into your demographic category, too? Would you like me to remind you every five minutes? It's annoying and serves no purpose. quote: Our schools are designed to teach so-called "facts", to teach us what to believe, not how to think and question for ourselves, and to find our own answers. This is not true. quote: Hitler had his minions develop policies to deal with idiots in their world, but I can't say I like the results. And now you've proven that this discussion cannot be taken seriously. -------------------- 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
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, October 31 2007 22:15 Profile Homepage #267 quote: Originally written by Synergy: I'm concerned about the unknown number of people who sadly probably already sold and moved away from their perfectly good home near the ocean in the last year, because they saw, and took to heart as gospel truth "An Inconvenient Truth" which has been receiving virtually only worship by the press. There has not been a mass exodus away from the coasts. Your concern is hilarious, not least because anyone who performed the actions that you describe would be an idiot anyway and not worth your concern. Also, by "the press," you presumably mean a particularly small segment of the left-wing press. You will note that the press is considerably more diverse than this, and you are making a patently false generalization. quote: Where do you suppose the critical voices were from knowledgable scientists in the field who were trying to say, "Ummm, no, that is not correct!" Drowned out...as usual. Drowned out by what? quote: Public policies get made over hype, noise, and hysteria more than science. Uh, non sequitur much? Where did "public policies" come into this? We're talking about a documentary and public and media response, not political action (a related but separate issue). You just like delivering "O mores, o tempora" speeches. You lack substance. -------------------- 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
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, October 31 2007 17:38 Profile Homepage #265 quote: Originally written by Synergy: You guys would be savagely all over any one of those points if someone like me had made them in support of an argument you disagreed with. I think you are demonstrating hypocrisy. The point is (yet again) that his conclusions are not in doubt. The overwhelming mass of evidence is overwhelming. If there are hundreds of facts, any one of which is convincing on its own, and roughly ten of which are unverified, there are still hundreds of convincing facts. This is why making arguments via redundant evidence is useful: you have fall-backs in case some of the evidence is eventually discredited. -------------------- 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
The Sky Is Falling...? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Wednesday, October 31 2007 08:50 Profile Homepage #259 Eh... drawing attention to the minor errors in the film has its place, I guess, but, as was duly noted in the articles you linked, the main thrust of the argument is not at all in question. -------------------- 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
Thoughts on Custom Titles. in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Tuesday, October 30 2007 11:10 Profile Homepage #65 quote: Originally written by Yama Toman?: Those are hideous cheesecakes... Man, you don't even like cheesecake. -------------------- 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
Thoughts on Custom Titles. in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 29 2007 18:34 Profile Homepage #59 quote: Originally written by M.: quote: Originally written by Kelandon: quote: Originally written by M.: I got mine through bribery. Sexual bribery. hits you in the head It was cheesecake, pervs. Yeah. You let him have a taste of your cheesecake. If you know what I mean. -------------------- 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
Thoughts on Custom Titles. in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 29 2007 18:22 Profile Homepage #56 quote: Originally written by M.: I got mine through bribery. Sexual bribery. -------------------- 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
Sad To Say in The Avernum Trilogy
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 29 2007 18:09 Profile Homepage #8 Get into the river travel and don't rush. Do as much as you can along the journey. It's pretty cool when you realize that you're going somewhere you've never seen before, and your sorrow at leaving Avernum can be mitigated by the fact that you're going to return. It was the coolness of Dark Waters that made me want to make Exodus (a BoA scenario that is basically a gigantic river journey). And enjoy A2. It's probably the finest of the original Avernum Trilogy (although they each have their merits). -------------------- 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
Name Choice in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 29 2007 18:01 Profile Homepage #4 I was aware of the Spidweb pseudonym tradition in the vein of Alcritas, so I wanted one of my own. Kelandon was a character in a story I wrote (not the protagonist, and not a character that I particularly identified with, but a rather snobbish elf prince). I originally came up with the name in the way that Asimov came up with R. Daneel Olivaw: I took a normal name (Landon, as in Landon Donovan) and mucked with it. The "Kel" syllable seemed vaguely elf-ish. -------------------- 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
Iffy's contest idea in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 29 2007 17:44 Profile Homepage #22 BoA doesn't handle poetry well at all. I guess I should've done dialog boxes, but that requires stanzas of no more than six lines each, and the verse was basically continuous. I should've just forced it into stanzas, but at the time, I couldn't bring myself to kill my darlings enough. -------------------- 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
Iffy's contest idea in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 29 2007 14:30 Profile Homepage #20 Text bubbles are good for little things. I like most of the handling of text bubbles in Exodus (major narrative shifts via text bubbles, rest of narration in dialog boxes). They were excessive in Bahs, though. Text bubbles add a lot to cutscene time. That's the main problem with 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
Iffy's contest idea in Blades of Avernum
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 29 2007 08:44 Profile Homepage #16 I found out the hard way that no cutscenes should ever be longer than 1 minute (not counting dialog box reading time) or have more than 10 seconds of uninterrupted stuff without a dialog box to break it up. This was a neat idea in BoE, because cutscenes were novel and technically challenging at the time, but it's not as great in BoA, because they're a normal part of the game. -------------------- 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
How did you guys begin? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Sunday, October 21 2007 19:40 Profile Homepage #22 My first post bemoaned the idiocy of not separating fanfic from canon, which some cough Drakefyre cough are in the habit of failing to do. It's pretty remarkable how direct my path was from the beginning. Right around that time, I started work on Bahs, and my threads pretty much said what I was going to do. -------------------- 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
What have you been reading lately? in General
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Thursday, October 18 2007 18:44 Profile Homepage #558 The rest of the story? -------------------- 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 BUGS v6.0 in Blades of Avernum Editor
Kelandon Off With Their Heads Member # 4045	written Monday, October 15 2007 12:50 Profile Homepage #33 I do still check this site from time to time. I'll probably be around a little more in a month or two, but this semester has really killed me with work and stuff. But if anyone would like to organize the bugs list or create a new post that covers more, there's nothing stopping you. The only reason my post is the definitive one right now is that it's the only effort anyone has made to be comprehensive. -------------------- 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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