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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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| Lord Putidus (The Darkness) Released! in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, March 29 2005 14:50
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Announcing the release of my second scenario, Lord Putidus (formerly known as The Darkness)! Get it here! -------------------- 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 |
| Looking to download scenarios in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, March 29 2005 11:26
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Bandits II is a BoE scenario, not a BoA scenario. (As edited in above.) Yes, this sort of thing is generally found in the Player FAQ. [ Tuesday, March 29, 2005 11:26: 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 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, March 29 2005 07:58
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No, I don't mean you. I mean Wizcozski, who's going to run through the release version right before I release it to make sure that I didn't make a typo in a script somewhere. :P EDIT: Well, and actually beta test, but I think I'm in good shape as far as beta comments go. [ Tuesday, March 29, 2005 07:59: 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 Universe in General | |
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written Tuesday, March 29 2005 07:55
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You really just need to buy a textbook on this. quote:No, not at all. If that were true, then objects could start moving spontaneously without violating conservation of energy. Objects need to acquire energy in order to start moving, and at relativistic speeds, some of that energy goes into increasing the object's mass. quote:Eh, close, but not quite. It's not that it would take "nearly" infinite energy; it would take EXACTLY infinite energy. You end up dividing by zero when you're trying to figure out the kinetic energy of a particle that has mass that's going the speed of light. The only reason that photons can go the speed of light is that they have no mass. quote:It's not that they consist of it, per se; it's that they have it. An object may not consist of velocity, but it can have velocity. Similarly, photons can have momentum (and I think here we're talking about quantum momentum, which doesn't require mass -- this is still a few weeks ahead in the course that I'm taking, so I can't explain it quite yet), but photons do not have mass. Let me repeat that: photons have energy but no rest mass. The funny thing is that I literally just came back from a class lecture on this. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Tuesday, March 29 2005 05:27
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All right, I'm just about done. Unless anyone particularly cares, I'm going to do what Thuryl suggested and use char_give_item to give back another Battle Medicine Kit if using one fails. I'm giving it to one last beta tester for a final run-through, and then I'll release it probably later today or possibly tomorrow. -------------------- 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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written Tuesday, March 29 2005 05:18
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As I understand it, there are some problems with absolute zero. Particles need not have mass. Photons don't. They have energy, which can sort of be thought of as mass, but it's more reasonable to say they have energy. Ultimately, the problem in talking about this is that the Newtonian ideas that are easy to discuss don't quite work in quantum or relativity. Quantum mechanics is by far the most proven scientific theory in history, though. It is bizarre, and you are not the first one to say that it is bizarre, and many people have tried to disprove it, and they can't. But here: if photons actually had mass, then by going at the speed of light, they'd have INFINITE mass, because one of the relativistic laws is that objects with mass gain mass as they travel faster. It's much less logically contradictory to say that photons have zero rest mass, and this works fine because photons can never be at rest anyway. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| How did you got your username? in General | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 20:38
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Normally it means "First-Person Shooter," but it may or may not actually mean that in this context. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| A4 wants in The Avernum Trilogy | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 19:31
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Ephesos, I think you missed something. A4 will happen; it's what Jeff is making right after he releases GF3 for Windows. The other topics have been about whether we think this is a good idea or not; this topic is about what sort of features we might like in A4. I really don't know. I just want A4 to continue to look like Avernum and not look like Geneforge. -------------------- 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 |
| Geneforge 3 available for Macintosh in Geneforge Series | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 15:39
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Okay, while I admit I like some of the stuff that he's done for GF3 (connected areas within a location, for instance), I have to admit that I groaned when the phrase "monster plague" was first uttered in the game. I like it and I'm probably going to get it eventually, but I'm not sure that I'm going to spend the money right away. Opinions from others so far? -------------------- 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 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 14:51
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I could do that. Opinions? -------------------- 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 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Monday, March 28 2005 12:49
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Okay, I'm pretty much done with the next version. I'll release it as soon as I hear back from my last couple of testers. I just wanted to let everyone know about one thing: From Thuryl: "Battle Medicine still loses a charge if the player cancels the character selection, or if attempting to use it fails for any reason." This was the reply that I gave him: Yeah, I went back and checked up on this. This is inherent in items that take charges. I originally had this set as an ability, but it simply didn't work. The problem is that char_take_item is broken -- as far as I can tell, it never does anything. Other item taking calls, like take_all_of_item and take_item aren't able to take from a specific character. I tried to pull some black magic with destroy_char_item (which takes all of the items of that type from the character) and then giving them back, but there's no way to give a stackable item to a specific character. The call reward_give (which does stack) doesn't allow for giving to a specific person, and the call char_give_item doesn't ever stack -- so if the character had fifteen Battle Medicine Kits in one item slot, that would turn into fourteen Battle Medicine Kits in fourteen slots after the ability was used. This would look very weird. As far as I know, there is no workaround for char_take_item with stackable items, so I don't think I can actually fix this until Jeff fixes BoA. I did try, though. -------------------- 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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written Monday, March 28 2005 05:01
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Well, I needed a pseudonym because it seemed like the cool BoE designers all had one. I hate coming up with names, so I just used one from a story I had written once. The funny thing is that the Kelandon in that story really is nothing like me and I don't much identify with him. He was just the most major character with a not-normal name. Years earlier, I made the name by taking the normal name Landon (as in Landon Donovan, who was in the news at the time) and sticking a "ke" on the front of it. Hence it is prounced exactly like that, stressed on the second syllable, not the first. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| What would you like to see developed after Geneforge 3 and Avernum 4? in General | |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 21:09
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I think Jeff has implied strongly that after GF3 and A4, he will be working on a GF4. That's not what I'd most like to see, but that's what he's likely to do. After that, I kind of expect an A5. I may or may not hate that idea -- I'll decide when I see A4. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 21:04
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I have four or five more things to track down (in the major cut scenes) and then I'll have essentially a release-ready version. Ash: Normally, I would, too (I did for Bahs), but not for this scenario. -------------------- 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 |
| Preordering? in Geneforge Series | |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 20:53
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Given that on the day that they release the game, they usually get back to you about registration within a few hours, and given that the demos are large enough that you're unlikely to get to the point of needing to register within a few hours, preordering is not really necessary. -------------------- 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 |
| Help - Basshikava in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 20:46
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quote:DreamGuy wouldn't know that, because he likes to bad-mouth scenarios after quitting in the middle of the first set of dungeons. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, March 27 2005 20:41
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Viseroth, the reason that people didn't bother to look closely at your post is that there have been numerous others asking virtually identical questions every few months going back to the beginning of these boards. And you have discovered what virtually everyone else does: it certainly could be done. However, Jeff has stated that he's not going to do it. So the answer to your question is an emphatic NO. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| HLPM suggestion in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 19:08
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I could do this easily enough. I think it's... one line in the HLPM code. Has anyone worked with spell levels slightly under 255? Anyone notice any problems with spell levels of, say, 200? If not, I might as well change it to that. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, March 27 2005 13:12
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But (as is your habit) you are again missing the point. I just made a comparison of cost-benefit ratios for enforcement of a law against abortion versus funding better sex education programs, not enforcement of a law against abortion versus nothing at all. I don't have statistics for what enforcement of the law in Portugal costs, but I suspect that putting that money into sex education would have a greater effect. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 13:08
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Well, so did I, which is why I ended up using the graphic, but it would be nice to have a functioning graphic too, so that at least I can compare and see which one I like better. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, March 27 2005 12:51
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Overwhelming, I'm not sure if this is what you were trying to say, but you just implied that no one in all of Portugal ever violates that law, or else that law has no enforcement mechanisms. Either way, that sounds quite ridiculous. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 12:48
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As a separate, later thought (hence the double-post): If any of you know how to get in touch with Kobold, I would like to. He made the Putidus graphic, and unless one of you feels like going into the graphic and erasing the fuzz by hand (beyond what I did, which was enough to make the graphic function in the game), I can only fix that graphic if he sends me a replacement. -------------------- 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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written Sunday, March 27 2005 12:32
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Unwanted pregnancies are going to happen. This we can take as a given. If we want to reduce the number of abortions, we have several choices. One obvious choice is to make it illegal. This requires a certain amount of money and effort for police enforcement, investigation of claims of violation, court proceedings, etc. Another obvious choice is to reduce the number of unwanted pregnancies in the first place by promoting adequate sex education. If we were to take the same amount of money that would go into making abortion illegal and put it into prevention programs, I expect that we would decrease the number of actual abortions by a greater amount. Of the many justifications for not banning abortion that I can imagine, this is the one that I fall back on in the end. Even if we were to imagine reducing the number of abortions as our goal, the best way to do it with limited resources would be to go to the source: sex education. -------------------- 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 The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
| Beta Call for The Darkness in Blades of Avernum | |
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written Sunday, March 27 2005 12:03
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Several of my beta testers are more experienced testers than I am a designer, so I don't bother giving people like Thuryl or Imban instructions. I give first-timers some instructions. "[T]he idea is that you should play this scenario all the way through, looking for bugs, problems, logical errors, or anything else to comment on before release to the general public (including, perhaps, anything that you particularly like about the scenario, which is also quite useful). Try to explore around, checking on all the details." -------------------- 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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written Sunday, March 27 2005 11:59
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Wow, this is a new low. While we're on the subject, though, has anyone else noticed that the opening screens in some of the games are different on Mac and on Windows? Win-A1 is missing the dragon on top of the mountain that Mac-A1 has. (I only noticed this because I used that dragon for Mount Galthrax in Bahssikava.) I think Win-BoA has a totally different startup splash screen than Mac-BoA does. -------------------- 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 |