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Elections: The Candidacy Thread in General
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Why not. Count me in.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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RWG in Richard White Games
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That idea has been proposed before with no success. Occasional spam that gets immediately locked is easier on the disk space than deliberate, constant spam.

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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.

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Oh My! A New Topic! in Richard White Games
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I actually tried to start a discussion about Lost Souls right after the shift from GC to RWG. It sort of worked.

Lost Souls is actually pretty fun. I don't think I'll ever register it, but I'll keep playing the demo all the way through about once every two or three years.

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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.

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Elections? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Mister Mooben:

quote:
Originally written by Marx' Martyr:

Ben: VINS FISZ MARK
Any special significance to that?

Vince Fizz made the apparently overwhelmingly over-rated (on SW) BoE scenario The Grinch. I'm assuming a "VINS FISZ MARK" is kind of like a black mark except having to do with Mr. Fizz.

EDIT: That said, I don't entirely know what it's supposed to mean.

[ Saturday, June 18, 2005 17:55: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum Editor
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You can also use the Orb of Flight out of the Custom Objects Script Base.

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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
Orb of thralni in Blades of Avernum
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You can also use the Orb of Flight out of the Custom Objects Script Base.

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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.

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Dam energy pulse mind crystal in The Avernum Trilogy
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Reviving a topic over a week old with nothing new to say = bad.

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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.

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Drug Debate Thread for the Rest of Us in General
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I would imagine that the old "recite the alphabet backwards" or "walk a straight line" tests would be adequate, though — if you're so out of it that you can't do that, you shouldn't be driving, no matter whether the cause is alcohol, marijuana, or fatigue. It may not catch everyone, but it'd be enough.

Obviously the tax money from any legalization should go directly into education, prevention, and treatment programs, including advertising cab services for the intoxicated.

[ Friday, June 17, 2005 20:00: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Drug Debate Thread for the Rest of Us in General
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quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

you've first got to establish that a pragmatic calculus is the only relevant issue.
No, not at all. You just have to establish that it is one relevant issue, so that one can then create a list of relevant issues, pros and cons, and consider them. I'm not saying there's a formula, but I'm saying that this should be one of the items of information that ought to be gathered in order to make an intelligent decision.

That is, this doesn't win the argument, but if true, it's one notch in favor.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Drug Debate Thread for the Rest of Us in General
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quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

In principle there will probably be a pricing scheme for which the total number of murders would be less than it currently is. It still just couldn't be right that anyone, however rarely, could buy the legal right to commit murder with the blessing of the state.
However, you would agree that a decrease in the number of deaths would be an advantage, right? It's not a clinching argument, but it's still a single argument in favor. The problem is that legalizing murder creates other problems that outweigh this advantage, not that this would not be an advantage.

That is, the general argumentative form is sound, even though it would not win all discussions by nature of its form.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Drug Debate Thread for the Rest of Us in General
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quote:
Originally written by Student of Trinity:

I was just criticizing one particular argument, namely the pragmatic appeal to bring something inevitable under control at the apparently small price of legally accepting its inevitability. Essentially my point was that this particular argument is moot: the merits of the legalization need to be established on other grounds.
Uh, let's try this again. Something will happen either way. If it's illegal, many other associated bad things will happen. If it's legal, those bad things will not happen. I'd chose legality.

If organized murder actually wouldn't increase more than the decrease of collateral damage, we would have to seriously examine the possibility of legalizing murder. The problem is that collateral damage is fairly small in comparison to attempted but failed murders. It's a false analogy.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me
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Elections? in General
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MM WAS A HORRIBLE MOD

In other news, an anonymous source close to the Office of the Pink and Pretty Page reports that Kelandon "might be thinking about considering planning to size up the possibility of an announcement of candidacy." More on this as it develops.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Drug Debate Thread for the Rest of Us in General
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You might want to, you know, read the other topic. Alec's first long post there explains it pretty clearly.

EDIT: That said, TM's incomprehensible/wrong on a couple of counts. Alec said PCP would be recognized as bad, not illegal.

[ Friday, June 17, 2005 18:26: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Drug Debate Thread for the Rest of Us in General
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quote:
Originally written by An Upright stranger:

Um, supervised injection? Do you mean, every single user with be catalogued, with time/date of last dose, and everything this entails? How much will this cost?
I think the idea is more to get people clean needles that don't have HIV on them rather than to track everyone who uses injectable drugs.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Drug Debate Thread for the Rest of Us in General
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quote:
Originally written by An Upright stranger:

Weed is addictive, I don't know what some of you are on, go to NIDA or somewhere.
Marijuana is habit-forming, not physically addictive. Wikipedia, which has everything, spells out the difference more or less effectively here.

Shall I take the silence on the facts about increased use due to legalization to be an indication that no one actually knows? I suppose it's not unlikely that no one has conducted rigorous studies of the effects of different forms of legalization, but I'm still a little bit surprised.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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THE GREAT DEBATE, PART III in General
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EDIT: Thuryl's right.

[ Friday, June 17, 2005 18:03: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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The Archive Opens in Blades of Exile
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I only attempted to connect scenarios that were not alphabetically consecutive.

This archive, as of right now, is designed for people who already know what they're looking for and just want to be able to download it. This may change in the future.

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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.

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As soon as I recover from building this thing, I'll send Brett a list of scenarios that Alexandria is missing. Maybe later on today or tomorrow I'll do it.

By the way, if anyone has any of the "lost" scenarios (listed on the front page of the site), particularly "Island Visitors" or "Triad," which are not known to be lost, I'd like them.

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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.

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The Archive

In light of ongoing discussions of Alex II and its failure to materialize, and in light of the laudable efforts by several members of the community to track down old, obscure scenarios, and in light of the fact that the Blades community appears to have completed its transition in adjustment to BoA, and most importantly in light of my recent acquisition of 150 megs of extra webspace, I've decided to set up a new scenario archive.

That's right, a new scenario archive. It's pretty basic: not searchable, no additional information about each scenario, basically just a list of scenario names and a bunch of corresponding zip files. I wanted to go from nothing to a functional archive in as short a time as possible, so it has no frills whatsoever.

I also have not gone through and checked the ~275 scenarios to make sure that they are the most recent released versions. I know that scenarios go through a number of updates that don't necessarily get reflected on Spiderweb or other hosts, so some of the versions may be outdated. If you find any that are, please let me know. However, I expect not to have to do regular updates, since the majority of BoE scenarios are pretty well set in stone at this point: Tatterdemalion is not likely to get a re-write any time soon, nor, I would think, is Redemption.

So why do this? Why, when Alexandria and Spiderweb both already do something like this? First of all, because Spiderweb has been notoriously negligent and Alexandria, though much better, is missing a bunch of scenarios and relies on other hosts for most of the rest of its scenarios — meaning that when other sites go down or Spiderweb flakes, Alexandria loses these scenarios. The Archive hosts everything that it carries, so these scenarios will not just disappear. I have a complete backup of the archive on my computer in a separate folder that I will never touch, and I'm going to put it on my new computer as well, so that it will never go down.

The second reason to do it is that none of the scenario archives are complete. Alexandria is missing close to 100 scenarios, and Spiderweb is missing even more, and even together they're missing ~25 scenarios. Most of these are fairly inconsequential scenarios (The Isle of Serin, Minimalism), but some are fairly significant (Dirty Gold) that can only be found at archives designed to catch the ones that slip between the cracks, like the one at The Blazing Blade or TrueSite. A few rather important scenarios (Tomorrow, Roots) cannot be found anywhere but the designer's own personal page. Hence this site.

If anyone spots any errors (typos, corrupted downloads, bad links, etc.), please let me know. If any designers would prefer that I not host their scenarios here, let me know. Everything is in its initial-release stage, which means there may still be a few screw-ups here and there.

And have fun playing!

By the way, in the process of collecting all of these scenarios, sorting them, and putting them together in the list, I have had my most brilliant idea yet: I have decided that I will make a BoE scenario entitled Doom Demon Echoes IV: The Lost Island of the Valley of the Big Quest for the Lair of the Undead Goblins and the Revenge of the Dragon-Killing Moon-Sword.

[ Friday, June 17, 2005 15:50: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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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
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THE GREAT DEBATE, PART III in General
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quote:
Originally written by Ash Lael:

If marijuana was legalized, one can only assume that a lot more people would get hooked on the stuff.
This is the point I'd like to know more about. Does anyone know of any research into this, or any relevant comparative statistics from the Netherlands or other countries?

I tend to think that heavy marijuana use would not increase at all: it's not like tobacco, which is addictive, so therefore people smoke a pack or two per day, but rather it is an occasional thing for almost every user. And if occasional use rises slightly (and by occasional I mean getting high a few times per year or less), then why do we care? It's not a public health concern at that point.

But this is just my guess, which I admit is grounded on nothing but my own thinking on the matter. Does anyone actually know?

EDIT: And if outside commenters should shut up and let you two debate, let us know. I'll oblige.

[ Friday, June 17, 2005 07:42: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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The Maze Beta-Testing in Blades of Avernum
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Yeah, um, sorry for basically not beta testing at all. I just never got around to it.

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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.

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Tower of the Magi in The Exile Trilogy
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They are definitely two different waterways. Fortunately, the Fort Draco waterway is small(ish), so finding your boat shouldn't be too bad.

And yes, the nervous-breakdown guy is somewhat important, and Solberg will tell you something related to that if you know what to ask for.

[ Friday, June 17, 2005 07:16: Message edited by: Kelandon ]

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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
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What is yours favuorite in General
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I saved a couple of looooong threads about the Silvar Inn during PPP1. If you want, I can zip them and e-mail them to you.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Elections? in General
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I was under the impression that elections have not gone smoothly on these boards.

That said, I would so vote for Alcritas.

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Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens.

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Need someone with a Mac in Blades of Avernum Editor
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When I get my real computer back (hopefully within the next couple of days), I should be able to help, but right now I'm stuck with OS 10.2.

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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.

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