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But there still won't be an item on top — it'll just look like it. This would bother me more, as a player, than if there were nothing on top at all.

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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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But there still won't be an item on top — it'll just look like it. This would bother me more, as a player, than if there were nothing on top at all.

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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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Summer jobs anyone? in General
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I suggest the Perseus online text.

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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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Why do you like BoE but not BoA? in Blades of Exile
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quote:
Originally written by the fatman:

On that point, BoE is more engaging as one feels more "immersed" in the world of Avernum.
I don't. I wish people would stop generalizing.

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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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Who are you? and What's your IQ? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Imban:

Someone here's theorized that I'm a howling, undead spectre of doom.
This is how I've always pictured you.

On another point, my scores on IQ tests have varied over something like a 50+ point margin. Since I don't think my intelligence changed more than three standard deviations over the course of a couple of years, I doubt that those tests accurately measured much about me.

Overall intelligence is not well-defined in current science, especially since it's clear that "overall intelligence" doesn't exist anyway. IQ, while interesting from a historical standpoint and perhaps moderately useful in small children, is quickly becoming recognized as inadequate, replaced by theories of multiple intelligences (mathematical, verbal, visual/spacial, etc.).

Especially given that "Intelligence Quotient" is defined as your mental age divided by your chronological age, matched up against an index, it should be relatively obvious that IQ is meaningless for anyone at the age of adolescence or older.

So goes my standard IQ rant, anyway. And don't even get me started on the SAT, which is a far worse test. :P

[ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 07:53: Message edited by: Thurylandon ]

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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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You don't need a custom graphic. Just place the custom terrain and put the item on top of 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.

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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You don't need a custom graphic. Just place the custom terrain and put the item on top of 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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Question about design contest. in Blades of Avernum
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That's strange — when the rules say "submit by June 1," I just assumed they meant by 12:00:01 a.m. PST on June 1st (which was nine and a half hours ago). I suppose they don't really specify.

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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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Human speech can apparently avoid vowels. There are a few highly obscure languages without them, and more to the point, some languages (like proto-Indo-European) used some consonants like vowels. Apparently fricatives (like S), liquids (like L), and nasals (like M) could all take stress.

That is to say that in the word "apple," which is pronounced AP-pl, a proto-Indo-European would've had no pronunciational qualms about pronouncing it ap-PL, or even dropping the inital A and pronouncing it PL. They had entire words without true vowels.

EDIT: But they did have vowels also.

[ Wednesday, June 01, 2005 07:27: Message edited by: Thurylandon ]

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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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Summer jobs anyone? in General
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I read a bunch of the Aeneid for class last semester. My plan was to read Book 6 and maybe some of... uh... something from the second half this summer. And probably some Cicero.

And for Greek, I'm probably going to try to read part of Plato's Apology.

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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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Question about design contest. in Blades of Avernum
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It's in the contest, in theory. I expect it to take last.

But here's the thing. I've been looking at the scenario production out of the past year. Here's how it breaks down:

There are eighteen scenarios on CSR. Four of those scenarios are by Jeff and obviously ineligible. APF and BS are by beta testers and therefore ineligible. I don't think DaC ever got submitted, because it's not on the tables and never has been.

That leaves eleven scenarios. Jeff may not do what he did last time and consider a designer's work as a whole, because that would eliminate four more (LP, 9V, RoR, and EM), which means he wouldn't even be able to fill out a top ten.

This is an interesting numbers game.

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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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Karma and Bush, and also the WTC in General
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quote:
Originally written by Marlenny:

Anyways, this subject is too old, he is governing for 3 more years and we can't do nothing about it.
We can nail the Republicans in the mid-term elections, which is entirely possible at this point.

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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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Do you cheat??? in Geneforge Series
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quote:
Originally written by 8xOverride:

ah sorry to below its just that i thought i would put it in a few of the cheat topics
Definitely no. On this forum, there is little enough traffic that people follow boards, not just threads, so everyone who reads one GF3 thread reads every other GF3 thread, too.

It wouldn't be quite so bad if that post made any sense.

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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
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Summer jobs anyone? in General
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I'm teaching SAT prep for The Princeton Review, which I do a little during the school year and substantially more in the summer. I'm also hoping that I'll get around to working on my Latin and Greek, but I haven't done much of anything yet.

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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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Mods don't get to see who voted for whom. We just get to see (like everyone else) the statistical results.

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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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trying to tweak the ending (spoilers) in Geneforge Series
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quote:
Originally written by Auri Fitzgerald:

I've already used Learned Darien so I don't have that option.


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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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trying to tweak the ending (spoilers) in Geneforge 2
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quote:
Originally written by Auri Fitzgerald:

I've already used Learned Darien so I don't have that option.


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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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What's your sex? in General
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quote:
Originally written by Arancaytar:

quote:
Originally written by Thuryl:

quote:
Originally written by SupaNik:

Although, I can't help but wondering why this is important. We don't use this boards as a kinda virtual dating agency. Or, at least, we shouldn't do.
Kel's been known to do so, and I'd consider it if I didn't live at such a horribly remote location.

Kel is sorta safe though because he already had a girlfriend before coming here...

No, I didn't. I showed up in February of last year. I didn't even meet Wizcozski until August.

EDIT: And heck, the very first thing Wizcozski and I bonded over was reading old Desp posts. We hardly knew each other at that point.

[ Tuesday, May 31, 2005 12:09: Message edited by: Thurylandon ]

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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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From what KernelKnowledge is saying, this is not hard to fix, and it can be done solely by changing the editor, but it's not going to get done for little while at least.

Yes, it would not be hard to make a custom terrain that looked like one of the container terrains but is not a container. Import the original terrain and change its te_special_property to 0.

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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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Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00
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From what KernelKnowledge is saying, this is not hard to fix, and it can be done solely by changing the editor, but it's not going to get done for little while at least.

Yes, it would not be hard to make a custom terrain that looked like one of the container terrains but is not a container. Import the original terrain and change its te_special_property to 0.

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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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PC personalities in Blades of Avernum
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quote:
Originally written by Dervish Malachai:

This community is rapidly gaining a penchant to put out scenarios that, put bluntly, are failing to amuse me.
But I'm asking you on what basis you say this. I've said that putting aside Jeff's scenarios, first-time designers' scenarios, and tiny or joke scenarios, there's not a heck of a lot of evidence to say that the community is gaining a penchant to do anything!

[ Tuesday, May 31, 2005 10:34: Message edited by: Thurylandon ]

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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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So in other words there's no way in the editor to place an item on a container and have it be NC in the game.

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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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So in other words there's no way in the editor to place an item on a container and have it be NC in the game.

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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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Sorry, I didn't follow that. Does editing the Contained/Not Contained thing change whether the item is contained or not? If there are specific situations when it doesn't, what are those situations?

EDIT: It sounds like what you're saying is that it has no effect, but the first thing that you said is that it has some effect.

[ Tuesday, May 31, 2005 08:43: Message edited by: Thurylandon ]

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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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Sorry, I didn't follow that. Does editing the Contained/Not Contained thing change whether the item is contained or not? If there are specific situations when it doesn't, what are those situations?

EDIT: It sounds like what you're saying is that it has no effect, but the first thing that you said is that it has some effect.

[ Tuesday, May 31, 2005 08:43: Message edited by: Thurylandon ]

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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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